Lonchognathosaurus Lonchognathosaurus Lonchognathosaurus was a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Xinjiang, China. The genus was named in 2004 by Michael Maisch, Andreas Matzke and Sun Ge. The type species is "Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris". The genus name is derived from Greek "lonchos", "lance", "gnathos", "jaw" and "sauros", "lizard", in reference to the fact that it is a reptile with pointed jaws. The specific name means "needle snout" in Latin. "Lonchognathosaurus" is based on holotype SGP 2001/19, found near Urumqi in the southern Junggar Basin, the front portion of a skull and lower jaws that came
South Polar region of the Cretaceous indicates a less powerful impact in the South Polar region. Given that the dinosaurs and other fauna of the polar regions of the Cretaceous were well adapted for living in long periods of dark and cold weather, it has been postulated that this community might have survived the event. The last temnospondyls–a group of giant amphibians which mainly died out after the Triassic–inhabited the South Polar region into the Early Cretaceous. "Koolasuchus", perhaps the last of the temnospondyls, is thought to have survived in regions where it was too cold for their competitors, the neosuchians–a group of reptiles containing modern