Anurognathidae
Family of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anurognathidae is a family of small, short-tailed pterosaurs that lived in Europe, Asia, and possibly North America during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Five genera are known: Anurognathus, from the Late Jurassic of Germany; Jeholopterus, from the Middle to Late Jurassic of China;[2] Dendrorhynchoides, from the Middle Jurassic[3] of China; Batrachognathus, from the Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan; and Vesperopterylus, from the Early Cretaceous of China.[4] Bennett (2007) suggested that the holotype of Mesadactylus, BYU 2024, a synsacrum, belonged to an anurognathid, though this affinity has been questioned by other authors.[5][6] Mesadactylus is from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the United States. Indeterminate anurognathid remains have also been reported from the Middle Jurassic Bakhar Svita of Mongolia[7][8] and the Early Cretaceous of North Korea.[9][10]
Anurognathids | |
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Life restoration of Sinomacrops bondei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Clade: | †Caelidracones |
Family: | †Anurognathidae Nopcsa, 1928[1] |
Type species | |
†Anurognathus ammoni Döderlein, 1923 | |
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