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Kunpengopterus
Kunpengopterus

Kunpengopterus

Family

Wukongopteridae

Environment

Tiaojishan Formation

Late
Triassic
Early
Jurassic
Middle
Jurassic
Late
Jurassic
Early
Cretaceous
Late
Cretaceous

Description

The Wukongopteridae is a recently discovered family of non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs, and the majority of them hail from China's Tiaojishan Formation. They are all pterosaurs with a combination of basal and derived features and had crests of keratinous skin on their heads. Kunpengopterus was a typical member of its family, a small pterosaur similar in size to a robin but with long and narrow wings. It probably preyed on insects and other small animals.

Artist

Joschua Knüppe

Size

90 cm (3 ft)

Fossil Locations


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