New Material of Feilongus（Reptilia： Pterosauria） from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning.pdfVIP

Vo1．88No．1PP．13-17 ACTAGEOLOGICAS~ICA (EnglishEdition) Feb．20l4 NewMaterialofFeilongus(Reptilia：Pterosauria)fromtheLower CretaceousJiufotangFormationofW esternLiaoning WANGXuri，，SHEN Caizhi，GAO Chunling andJ1N Kemp 1InstituteofGeology,ChineseAcademyofGeologicalSciences，Beoing100037,China 2DalianNaturalHistoryMuseum，Dalian，Liaoning116023，China 3ChineseAcademyofGeologicalSciences，Bejiing10003,7China Abstract：Based on a new nearly naturally preserved skulland four cervicalvertebrae ofthe pterosaurFeilongussp．from thelowerCretaceousJiufotangFormationofBeipiao，westernLiaoning province，northeasternChina，thediagnosisofFeilongusisamended．Thereviseddiagnosisnoteslong， curved，needle．shapedteeththatareconfinedtotheiaw faranteriortothenas0ant0rbitalfenestra； posteriorteeth thatare slightly smallerthan theanterior teeth；cervicalvertebrae elongatedwith a ratiooflengthtowidthgreaterthan5：toothnumberofabout78；andtwocranialsagittalcrests． Keywords：pterosaur，am endeddiagnosis，JiufotangFormation，Aptian，westernLiaoning 】【Intr0ducti0n Abundantpterosaurspecimenshavebeen discovered rfom westernLiaoningandthesurroundingareasinChina inthe lasttwodecades(JiandJi，1997：Jieta1，1999； W angandLti，2001；W angandZhou，2002，2003，2004； W angeta1．，2002，2005；WangandZhou2006；Lti，2003， 2009，201O；LfiandHone，2012；LfiandJi，2005；Lfieta1．， 2006a，2006b，20ll，20121．Thishasgreatlyextendedour understanding of pterosaur evolution， classification， morphologyandbehavior．Feilongusyoungiwasthefirst reportedpterosaurinwhichthewingspanreachedgreater than2meters(Wangeta1．，2005)．Thetypespecimen includedanalmostcompleteskul1andmandible(Fig．11． Fig．1．Linedrawing oftheholotypeofFeilongusyoungi whichwasdiscoveredfrom the1owerYixianFormationat Wangeta1．，2005(AfterWangeta1．，2005)． Beipiao，westernLiaoning． Thediagn