Genus: Kunpengopterus WANG, KELLNER, JIANG, CHENG, MENG & RODRIGUES, 2010
Etymology: From Kun Peng, an ancient mythological figure from China regarded as being a very strange flying animal, and Greek, pterus, "wing."

Species: sinensis WANG, KELLNER, JIANG, CHENG, MENG & RODRIGUES, 2010
Etymology: Greek, sino, meaning pertaining to China, where this new species was discovered.

Holotype: IVPP V16047

Locality: Longlongta, Jianchang County, western Liaoning Province, China.

Horizon: Daohugou bed (Formation) or Tiaojishan Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Jurassic.

Material: Almost complete and well-articulated skeleton.

Note: Emetolite (reguirtate/pellet) associated with the skeleton.

Referred material:

JIANG, WANG, ZHENG, CHENG, WANG, WEI & KELLNER, 2022

STM-19-59: Skull and skeleton.

Note: Emetolite (reguirtate/pellet) associated with the skeleton.

 

CHENG, JIANG, WANG & KELLNER, 2017

Locality: Near Daxishan, Longlongta, Jianchang County, western Liaoning Province, China.

Horizon: Yanliao deposits, Daohugou bed (Formation) or Tiaojishan Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Jurassic.

Material:

IVPP V 16047: Almost complete skull and well-articulated skeleton.

Species: antipollicatus ZHOU, PEGAS, MA, HAN, JIN, LEAL, BONDE, KOBAYASHI, LAUTENSCHLAGER, WEI, SHEN & JI, 2021
Etymology: Greek, anti, opposite, and Greek, pollex, "pollex."

Holotype: BPMC 0042

Locality: Linglongta Town, Jianchang County, Huludaco City, Liaoning Province, China.

Horizon: Linglongta strata, Tiaojishan Fromation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bajocian Stage, Lower Dogger Epoch, Early Middle Jurassic-Oxfordian Stage, Early Malm Epoch, Early Late Jurassic.

Material: Nearly complete skull and skeleton.

Paratype:

= Darwinopterus modularis LU, UNWIN, DEEMING, JIN, LIU & JI, 2011, WANG, KELLNER, CHENG, JIANG, WANG, SAYAO, RODRIGUES, COSTA, LI, MENG, & ZHOU, 2015

ZMNH M8802, counterpart IVPP V18403: Skull and skeleton.

Locality: Linglengta, Jianchang County, Liaoning Province, China.

Horizon: Tiaojishan Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Jurassic.

Material: Incomplete skeleton.

Note: With one egg near pelvic girdle, and one in the body cavity.

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