Boreopteridae
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| Skeletal diagram of Zhenyuanopterus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Ornithocheiromorpha |
| Clade: | † Lanceodontia
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| Clade: | † Ornithocheiriformes
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| Family: | †Boreopteridae Lü et al., 2006 |
| Type species | |
| † Boreopterus cuiae Lü & Ji, 2005
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Boreopteridae (meaning "northern wings") is a group of
China.[1]
Classification
In 2006,
ctenochasmatoid closely related to Gnathosaurus.[6] The true boreopterid clade was found to contain Boreopterus, Guidraco, and Zhenyuanopterus by Andres and colleagues in 2014,[6] and was then found to contain just Boreopterus and Zhenyuanopterus by Wu and colleagues in 2017,[7] a subsequently followed classification by recent studies.[8][9][10][11]
Phylogeny
The Boreopteridae was included in an analysis by Brian Andres and colleagues in 2014, where it was placed in a basal position within the Anhangueria.[6] However, a topology recovered by Nicholas Longrich and colleagues in 2018 placed the family Boreopteridae as the sister taxon of the family Lonchodectidae, while also placed outside the Anhangueria.[8]
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Topology 1: Andres et al. (2014).[6]
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Topology 2: Longrich et al. (2018).[8]
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Paleoecology
The known taxa come from the
Platanista
dolphins, which share a similar dentition.
References
- ^ Junchang, Lü; Ji, S.; Yuan, C.; Ji, Q. (2006). Pterosaurs from China (in Chinese). Beijing: Geological Publishing House. p. 147 p.
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- ^ Pêgas, R.V., Holgado, B., Leal, M.E.C., 2019. "On Targaryendraco wiedenrothi gen. nov. (Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontoidea, Lanceodontia) and recognition of a new cosmopolitan lineage of Cretaceous toothed pterodactyloids", Historical Biology, 1–15. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1690482
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