Haopterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. Its fossil remains dated back 124.6 million years ago.
Haopterus Paleozoological Museum of China
H. gracilis specimen BMNHC Ph767 skull, National Museum of Natural Science
Teeth (below) compared to those of Mimodactylus
Pterodactyloidea is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs, and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles. They appeared during the middle Jurassic Period, and dif
Haopterus
…Haopterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. Its fossil remains dated back 124.6 million years ago…
Reconstruction of Kariridraco, a terrestrial azhdarchoid