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Feilongus

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Feilongus is only one of a huge assortment of pterosaurs, feathered dinosaurs and prehistoric birds that have been recovered from China's Jehol fossil beds; it belonged to the same general group as the more well-known Pterodactylus and Ornithocheirus. (Just how complicated is it to sort out the evolutionary relationships of pterosaurs? Well, technically Feilongus is known as an "archaeopterodactyloid.") Like other pterosaurs of the early Cretaceous period, the long-beaked Feilongus made its living by diving for fish in the lakes and ponds of its Asian habitat.