Gladocephaloideus

Gladocephaloideus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 121 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Pterosauria
Suborder:	†Pterodactyloidea
Clade:	†Ctenochasmatoidea
Family:	†Gallodactylidae
Genus:	†Gladocephaloideus Lü et al, 2012
Species:	† G. jingangshanensis
Binomial name
Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis Lü et al, 2012

Gladocephaloideus is a genus of gallodactylid ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China. Gladocephaloideus is known from a complete skull and partial postcranial skeleton including traces of hair-like pycnofibres. It was collected from the Jingangshan Bed of the Yixian Formation, dating to the early Aptian stage, about 121 million years ago. It was named by Lü Junchang, Ji Qiang, Wei Xuefang and Liu Yongqing in 2012 and the type species is Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis. Gladocephaloideus is the first gallodactylid pterosaur found in Asia.^[1]

References

1. Lü Junchang, Ji Qiang, Wei Xuefang and Liu Yongqing (2012). "A new ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China". Cretaceous Research 34: 26–30. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.09.010.