Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 140–92.5 Ma
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Anhanguera santanae skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Order:
†Pterosauria
Suborder:
†Pterodactyloidea
Clade:
†Anhangueria
Family:
†Anhangueridae Campos & Kellner 1985
Type species
†Anhanguera blittersdorffi
Campos & Kellner, 1985
Subgroups
†Anhanguerinae
†Anhanguera
†Araripesaurus?
†Arthurdactylus?
†Brasileodactylus?
†Caulkicephalus?
†Cearadactylus?
†Guidraco?
†Liaoningopterus
†Ludodactylus?
†Maaradactylus
†Santanadactylus?[1]
†Coloborhynchinae?
†Aerodraco?
†Coloborhynchus
†Nicorhynchus
†Ornithocheirus?
†Siroccopteryx?
†Uktenadactylus
Tropeognathinae?
†Amblydectes
†Ornithocheirus?
†Siroccopteryx?
†Tropeognathus
†Mythungini
†Ferrodraco
†Mythunga
†Thapunngaka
Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.[2] They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth. A recent study discussing the group considered the Anhangueridae to be typified by a premaxillary crest and a lateral expansion in the distal rostrum. The same study presented a cladistic analysis, for which an "agreement subtree" was calculated. The Anhangueridae was found to be sister taxon to the large crested Tropeognathus.[3]
^Renan A. M. Bantim; Antônio A. F. Saraiva; Gustavo R. Oliveira; Juliana M. Sayão (2014). "A new toothed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Anhangueridae) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, NE Brazil". Zootaxa. 3869 (3): 201–223. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.1. PMID 25283914.
^Campos, D. A. & Kellner, Alexander W. A. (1985). "Panorama of the flying reptiles study in Brazil and South America". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 57: 453–466.
^Rodrigues, Taissa & Kellner, Alexander W. A. (2013). "Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England". ZooKeys (308): 1–112. doi:10.3897/zookeys.308.5559. PMC 3689139. PMID 23794925.
Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth. A recent study discussing...
South America. This genus is considered to be a member of the family Anhangueridae, however, several studies have also recovered it within another family...
by Jacobs et al. in 2019 recovered Maaradactylus within the family Anhangueridae, and as the sister taxon of several Anhanguera species. Their cladogram...
Anhangueridae. Their cladogram is shown on the left. Other studies however, have concluded that Cearadactylus is a member of the family Anhangueridae...
colleagues, Ludodactylus is classified just outside Ornithocheiridae and Anhangueridae as a derived member of the more inclusive group Anhangueria. Their cladogram...
shows the phylogenetic relationships of tropeognathines within the Anhangueridae. Richards, Timothy; Stumkat, Paul; Salisbury, Steven (6 October 2023)...
Anhanguera within the separate family Anhangueridae. However, back in 2001, Unwin considered the name Anhangueridae a junior synonym of Ornithocheiridae...
surface. The descriptors of Siroccopteryx placed this genus in the family Anhangueridae sensu Kellner. David Unwin suggested in 2001 that it was a species of...
Ferrodraco as sister taxon to Mythunga, but both placed within the family Anhangueridae, more specifically within the subfamily Tropeognathinae. Ferrodraco...
Ornithocheirae, reclassifying all other snout-crested pterosaurs in the family Anhangueridae. Their cladogram is shown on the right. List of pterosaur genera Timeline...
Tropeognathus cf. T. Mesembrinus Wellnhofer, 1987 (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) and other large pterosaurs from the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous...
descendants. Thus Ornithocheirae is defined to include two families, the Anhangueridae and the Ornithocheiridae, following the opinion of Alexander Kellner...
Brasileodactylus, Camposipterus, Cearadactylus, Ludodactylus as well as the family Anhangueridae, however, recent analyses had recovered the family Hamipteridae within...
the group Anhanguerinae, a subfamily belonging to the larger group Anhangueridae. Guidraco is known only from the holotype IVPP V17083, an articulated...
the subfamily Coloborhynchinae, which in turn was within the family Anhangueridae, sister taxon to Uktenadactylus. Their cladogram is shown below. Holgado...
Thapunngaka was assigned within the subfamily Tropeognathinae of the family Anhangueridae, sister taxon to both Ferrodraco and Mythunga. The cladogram below shows...
genus. A 2021 study found A. crassidens to be a valid genus within Anhangueridae, while A. platystomus was placed in the new genus Draigwenia. A. eurygnathus...
however, several studies have reassigned Caulkicephalus to the family Anhangueridae, specifically to the subfamily Anhanguerinae, sister taxon to both Guidraco...
Ornithocheirus and Anhanguera, and therefore it is placed within either Anhangueridae or Ornithocheiridae, depending on the author. Caulkicephalus was also...
Coloborhynchus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur belonging to the family Anhangueridae, though it has also been recovered as a member of the Ornithocheiridae...
Reptiles Study in Brazil and South America (Pterosauria/ Pterodactyloidea/ Anhangueridae)". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 57 (4): 141–142 & 453–466...
(44 lb) in body mass. Wang classified Liaoningopterus as a member of the Anhangueridae, mainly because of the crests. This opinion was restated by him in 2005...
Archaeopterodactyloidea. In 2010, Kellner et al. placed Mythunga within the Anhangueridae. In 2018, it was recovered by a cladistic analysis in the Anhangueria...
Tropeognathus cf. T. Mesembrinus Wellnhofer, 1987 (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) and other large pterosaurs from the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous...
Sayão, Juliana M. (2014). "A new toothed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Anhangueridae) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, NE Brazil". Zootaxa....
Kellner, A.W.A. (1996). "Description of new material of Tapejaridae and Anhangueridae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) and discussion of pterosaur phylogeny"...
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