Family of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
Anurognathids
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic – Early Cretaceous, 165–122.1 Ma
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As early as 189 Ma if "Dimorphodon weintraubi" is an anurognathid.
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
Subgroups
†Daohugoupterus?
†Mesadactylus?
†"Dimorphodon" weintraubi?
†Anurognathinae
†Anurognathus
†Jeholopterus
†Vesperopterylus
†Luopterus
†Dendrorhynchoides
†Batrachognathinae
†Batrachognathus
†Cascocauda
†Sinomacrops
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]
^Nopcsa, F (1928). "The Genera of Reptiles" (PDF). Palaeobiologica. 1 (1): 163–188.
^Gao, K. -Q.; Shubin, N. H. (2012). "Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (15): 5767–72. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.5767G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1009828109. PMC 3326464. PMID 22411790.
^Lü Junchang & David W.E. Hone (2012). "A New Chinese Anurognathid Pterosaur and the Evolution of Pterosaurian Tail Lengths". Acta Geologica Sinica. 86 (6): 1317–1325. doi:10.1111/1755-6724.12002. S2CID 140741278.
^Lü, J.; Meng, Q.; Wang, B.; Liu, D.; Shen, C.; Zhang, Y. (2017). "Short note on a new anurognathid pterosaur with evidence of perching behaviour from Jianchang of Liaoning Province, China". In Hone, D.W.E.; Witton, M.P.; Martill, D.M. (eds.). New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology(PDF). Geological Society, London, Special Publications. Vol. 455. London: The Geological Society of London. pp. 95–104. doi:10.1144/SP455.16. S2CID 219196969.
^Bennett, S. Christopher (2007). "Reassessment of Utahdactylus from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 257–260. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[257:ROUFTJ]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4524687. S2CID 129729571.
^Sprague, M. & McLain, M. A. (2018). Resolving the Mesadactylus Complex of Dry Mesa Quarry, Morrison Formation, Colorado. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2018, p. 220.
^Unwin, D. M. & Bakhurina, N. N. (2000): Pterosaurs from Russia, Middle Asia and Mongolia. – In: M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin & E. N. Kurochin (Eds), The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia; Cambridge (Cambridge University Press),
420–433.
^Barrett, Paul M.; Butler, Richard J.; Edwards, Nicholas P.; Milner, Andrew R. (2008). "Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas" (PDF). Zitteliana. 28: 61–107. doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.12007.
^Gao, K.-Q.; Li, Q.-G.; Wei, M.-R.; Pak, H.; Pak, I. (2009). "Early Cretaceous birds and pterosaurs from the Sinuiju Series, and geographic extension of the Jehol Biota into the Korean Peninsula". Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea. 25 (1): 57–61. ISSN 1225-0929.
^So, K. S.; Kim, P. H.; Won, C. G. (2024). "First Articulated Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Paleontological Journal. 57 (1 supplement): S90–S94. doi:10.1134/S003103012360018X.
Anurognathidae is a family of small, short-tailed pterosaurs that lived in Europe, Asia, and possibly North America during the Jurassic and Cretaceous...
Anurognathus was assigned by Oskar Kuhn to the family Anurognathidae in 1937. In the modern clade Anurognathidae, Anurognathus is the sister taxon of the clade...
by So et al. (2024). Jeholopterus was by the authors assigned to the Anurognathidae. An analysis by Lü Junchang in 2006 resolved its position as being the...
the large eyes of and the broad faces that are typical of the family Anurognathidae, as well as to the Chinese origin of the animal. The specific name,...
within the subfamily Anurognathinae, a subfamily within the family Anurognathidae. Within this subfamily, Luopterus was in more derived position than...
the latest pterosaurs are pterodactyloids. The position of the clade Anurognathidae (Anurognathus, Jeholopterus, Vesperopterylus) is debated. Anurognathids...
not closely related to Dimorphodon macronyx, but an early relative of Anurognathidae. In 1870, Seeley assigned Dimorphodon to its own family, Dimorphodontidae...
Helmut; et al. (2010). "The soft tissue of Jeholopterus (Pterosauria, Anurognathidae, Batrachognathinae) and the structure of the pterosaur wing membrane"...
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the presumed long tail, the authors rejected a placement within the Anurognathidae and classified it instead as a long-tailed rhamphorhynchid, mainly in...
assumed a short tail was present. Batrachognathus was assigned to the Anurognathidae, as a relative of Anurognathus. In 2003 Alexander Kellner named the...
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