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MOGANOPTERUS
(moe-gan-op-teh-rus)
meaning: "Gan Jiang and Mo Ye wing"
Named By: Lu Junchang, Pu Hanyong, Xu Li, Wu Yanhua & Wei Xuefang in 2012
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 124.5 Ma
Location: China, Liaoning Province
Size: Preserved length of skull is 95 centimetres. Wingspan roughly estimated to be somewhere between 5 and 7 meters long, possibly slightly larger
Diet: Piscivore/Carnivore
Fossil(s): Skull and cervical (neck) vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Pterodactyloidea | Ornithocheiroidea | Boreopteridae |
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Moganopterus is an extinct genus of boreopterid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China.

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