Noripterus

Noripterus (meaning "lake wing" from Mongoliannuur, "lake" and Greek pteron, "wing") is a genus of dsungaripteridpterodactyloidpterosaur from Lower Cretaceous of Asia. The type species, Noripterus complidicens, is from the Wuerho Pterosaur Fauna (WPF) of the Lianmuqin Formation and Shengjinkou Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China. Both formations have seen various age estimates, with data suggest at least some of the WPF dates to the middle Valanginian, but the upper and lower bounds of these pterosaur bearing deposits remains unclear. It was first named by Yang Zhongjian (also known as C.C. Young in older sources) in 1973. The second species, Noripterus parvus, was recovered from the Tsagaantsav Formation of Mongolia.