Fenghuangopterus
| Fenghuangopterus | |
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| Fossil specimen, Beijing Museum of Natural History
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Family: | †Rhamphorhynchidae |
| Genus: | †Fenghuangopterus Lü, Fucha & Chen, 2010 |
| Species: | †F. lii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Fenghuangopterus lii Lü, Fucha & Chen, 2010
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Fenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.
The
Scaphognathinae, which had previously been known only from the Late Jurassic and includes the close relatives Scaphognathus, Sordes and Harpactognathus.[1]
Description
Fenghuangopterus was similar to other scaphognathines in its short, blunt skull with a large antorbital fenestra, and widely spaced, vertically oriented teeth (as opposed to the horizontally-oriented teeth of other rhamphorhynchids). Like all known rhamphorhynchids its tail was stiffened by long vertebral extensions. The primary differences between Fenghuangopterus and other scaphognathines reside in its more numerous teeth — eleven in the upper jaw — which extended further back in the jaw than with its relatives, and its earlier time period.[1]
