Boreopterus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Boreopterus lived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in Asia. The first Boreopterus fossil was discovered in 2005.
Quick facts about Boreopterus:
- Existed from 129.4 million years ago to 113 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 2 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Boreopterus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- S.-X. Jiang and X.-L. Wang. 2014. A new boreopterid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China, with a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the Boreopteridae. Journal of Paleontology 88(4):823-828
- J. Lü and Q. Ji. 2005. A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):157-163
