Douzhanopterus
Douzhanopterus was a small flying reptile that lived during the Jurassic Period. It had a tail that was shorter than older pterosaurs but longer than later ones, making it a link between the two groups.21
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Douzhanopterus had a tail that was 173% the length of its upper arm bone (humerus), which is shorter than older pterosaurs but still longer than later pterodactyloids.2
Its fifth toe on the foot was reduced, with the first toe bone only about 20% the length of the third foot bone.2
The only known fossil of Douzhanopterus is a skeleton without a skull, stored at the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature in China.1
Douzhanopterus lived about 160 to 161 million years ago, during the Oxfordian stage of the Jurassic Period.2
Its name comes from a Chinese legend: Douzhan refers to a Buddha title given to the Monkey King Sun Wukong.1
Douzhanopterus is considered a transitional form, meaning it shows features between older long-tailed pterosaurs and newer short-tailed pterodactyloids.2
The fossil was bought from a local farmer who said it came from Toudaoyingzi, but scientists think it actually came from Linglongta in Liaoning, China.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Douzhanopterus
- E rehilwe ke
- Wang et al. 20174
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Monofenestrata4
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 168 ho isa ho 152 (Bathonian / Kimmeridgian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Tiaojishan4
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Douzhanopterus was named in 2017 by Wang Xiaoli and colleagues. The only known fossil was bought from a local farmer and is now stored at the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Douzhanopterus is related to other pterosaurs, but it is thought to be a close relative of the group that led to pterodactyloids.2
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- Douzhanopterus (en.wikipedia.org)
- New evidence from China for the nature of the pterosaur evolutionary transition | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Douzhanopterus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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