By Vitor Silva, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.
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Name: Noripterus complicidens
Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Eupterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiroidea, Azhdarchoidea, Neoazhdarchia, Dsungaripteromorpha, Dsungaripteridae
Noripterus is our next Dsungaripterid, known from the Lianmuqin Formation of China as well as the Tsagan Tsab Formation of Mongolia. It lived about 140 million years ago, in the Berriasian age of the Early Cretaceous, and it is one of the only known pterosaurs from Mongolia, and known from several good skeletons to boot. It, like its relative Dsungaripterus, had a stout skull, with a long and pointed snout, and no teeth in the front of the snout, though there were cone-shaped teeth in the back of the mouth, which were probably used for feeding upon shelled mollusks and crustaceans. Unlike Dsungaripterus, it had a straight jaw rather than a curved one, and the teeth are more exposed - which probably means that it fed on different shellfish than the closely related (and closeby) Dsungaripterus. It had a wingspan of four meters, making it a similar size as Dsungaripterus, and both lived in environments filled with expansive inland lakes, where they would have found their preferred forms of food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noripterus
http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/noripterus.html
