Zhejiangopterus merk: Vitae

Zhejiangopterus  merk: Vitae 
spanwijdte 16 cm

Zhejiangopterus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaurs, known from a species that lived in China during the late Cretaceous period. [1] The genus was named in 1994 by Chinese palaeontologists Cai Zhengquan and Wei Feng. The species are Zhejiangopterus linhaiensis. The genus name refers to the Zhejiang province and a Latin Greek Pteron "Wings". The specific name refers to the city of Linhai.
In 1986, a young limestone fractor named Xu Chengfa found a large fossil near the village of Aolicun in Linhai. Xu per letter informed the director of the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou, Ming Hua, he understood that the remains of an unknown pterosaurian. Therefore, he sent a team, consisting of the writers and Wu Weitang to examination. They secure the Fossil and have the local population to warn you of possible further findings. Xu himself managed to find three more specimens before they were killed in an accident in 1988; another worker found a complete skull.