An unusual long-tailed pterosaur with elongated neck from western Liaoning of China

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 793-812

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Kellner, Alexander W A ^b   Jiang, Shunxing ^a,c   Meng, Xi ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

?Late Jurassic Early Cretaceous; China; Liaoning; Pterosauria; Wukongopterus

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOGNATHOIDES; PTERODACTYLOIDEA; PTEROSAURIA;

EID: 70449111301     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 16782690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652009000400016     Document Type: Article

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