Reptilia - Pterosauria - Boreopteridae

Full reference: J. Lü and Q. Ji. 2005. A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):157-163

Belongs to Boreopterus according to S.-X. Jiang et al. 2014

See also Andres et al. 2014 and Wang and Zhou 2006

Sister taxon: Boreopterus giganticus

Type specimen: JZMP-04-07-3, a skeleton (nearly complete skeleton). Its type locality is Jinzhou, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine shale/mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Jinzhou

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