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Re: New Chinese Pterosaur
The Chinese Science Bulletin has a nice pic of Haopterus gracilis on its web
site
(http://www.scichina.com/ky/0113/kyfm13.stm).
Looks as if this new pterosaur is not Eosipterus, which means that three
distinct genera, one 'rhamphorhynchoid' (Dendrorhynchoides) and two
pterodactyloids (Eosipterus and Haopterus), are now known from the Liaoning
deposits. A lagerstätte with diverse bird and pterosaur assemblages - so much
for the idea that these groups were competitors, as Unwin 1988 argued. D'oh!
Tschuess
Dave
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