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A new paper recently published in the journal Paleontology and Evolutionary Science by a crew of international scientists describes an entirely new genus and species unearthed from the Middle-Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation in the Hebei province that is only the third species of these diminutive (and kinda cute) pterosaurs from the Jurassic of China.
Credit: Zhao Chuang/PNSO
Officially named Sinomacrops bondei, this fossilized specimen marks the first anurognathid ever discovered with its full skull exposed in lateral view. Following an evoloutionary development analysis of the remains, scientists involved with the study identified the 160 million-year-old Sinomacrops as a sister-group of the pterosaur known as Batrachognathus volans, which together form the whole Batrachognathinae genus. ....

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