Although paleontologists have greatly increase the pterosaur
diversity in the last decades, particularly due to discoveries
made in western Liaoning, China, very little is known regarding
pterosaur biogeography. An international team led by Dr. WANG
Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, described a new
pterosaur, Guidraco venator gen. et sp. nov., from the Early
Creataceous Jiufotang Formation, western Lianing, China, adding
significantly to our knowledge of pterosaur distribution and
enhancing the diversity of cranial anatomy found in those volant
creatures, researchers report in the April 2012 issue of the
journal of Naturwissenschaften. The specimen, skull with most
elements articulated or in close association and the anterior
portion of a neck, was unearthed from the Early Cretaceous
Jiufotang Formation, Sihedang, Lingyuan City, western Liaoning,
China. The skull is 380 mm long (measured between the tip of the
premaxillae and the posterior margin