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EOAZHDARCHO
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Genus: Eoazhdarcho Lü & Ji, 2005
Etymology: "dawn Azhdarcho"
Type species: E. liaoxiensis
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Azhdarchidae
Holotype: GMN-03-11-02 — An incomplete skeleton with a lower jaw. (Lü & Ji, 2005)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Jiufotang Formation, Jehol Group
Location: Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China
Skull length: > 200 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: 1600 mm
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A small azhdarchid pterosaur with a wingspan of approximately 1.6 m; the ratio of the length to the width of the middle series cervical vertebrae is approximately 3.5; the ratio of the humeral length to the femoral length is approximately 0.96. It differs from other toothless forms in Liaoning in that the coracoid and sacpula are fused into a U-shaped bone; the ratiuo of ulna laenth to wing metacarpal IV is 0.90 and the ratio of the deltopectoral crest length to shaft length is approximately 0.33. (Lü & Ji, 2005)
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References:
Lü, J., and Ji, Q., 2005, New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Western Liaoning. Acta Geologica Sinica 79 (3): 301-307.