Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian
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Skeletal restoration of the holotype by Jaime Headden
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Order:
†Pterosauria
Family:
†Anurognathidae
Genus:
†Batrachognathus Ryabinin, 1948
Species:
†B. volans
Binomial name
†Batrachognathus volans
Ryabinin, 1948
Batrachognathus is an extinct genus of anurognathid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Formation of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. The genus was named in 1948 by the Russian paleontologist Anatoly Nicolaevich Ryabinin. The type species is Batrachognathus volans. The genus name is derived from Greek batrakhos, "frog" and gnathos, "jaw", in reference to the short wide head. The specific epithet means "flying" in Latin.
Batrachognathus and Jeholopterus are sister taxa. In 2021, a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Xuefang Wei and colleagues recovered Batrachognathus within...
Jurassic of China; Dendrorhynchoides, from the Middle Jurassic of China; Batrachognathus, from the Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan; and Vesperopterylus, from the...
Junchang in 2006 resolved its position as being the sister taxon of Batrachognathus. Kellner and colleagues in 2009 proposed Batrachognathinae for the...
sister taxon of the clade Batrachognathinae, which contains the species Batrachognathus, Dendrorhynchoides and Jeholopterus. In 2021, a phylogenetic analysis...
Within the family, Sinomacrops was the sister taxon to the pterosaur Batrachognathus. Below is a cladogram representing their phylogenetic analysis: Wei...
Dendrorhynchoides being found to form an anurognathid clade with Batrachognathus, that he named Asiaticognathidae. He later admitted Asiaticognathidae...
from the Jurassic of the Kara-Tau". Akademia Nauk. 15 (1): 86–93. "Batrachognathus." In: Cranfield, Ingrid (ed.). The Illustrated Directory of Dinosaurs...
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