- Breviquartossa.
Anurognathids are
widely believed to have been
nocturnal or
crepuscular akin to bats. The fact that many
anurognathids have
large eye sockets...
-
describers argue that
Jeholopterus had a
short tail, a
feature seen in
other anurognathids but
unusual for "rhamphorhynchoid" (i.e. basal)
pterosaurs that typically...
-
Pterosaurs spanned a wide
range of
adult sizes, from the very
small anurognathids to the
largest known flying creatures,
including Quetzalcoatlus and...
- late
Early Jur****ic (Toarcian); they are
thought to been piscivorous.
Anurognathids,
which first appeared in the
Middle Jur****ic,
possessed short heads...
- Lonchognatha. More
recent studies of
pterosaur relationships have
found anurognathids and
pterodactyloids to be
sister groups,
which would limit Caelidracones...
-
estimated by ****uming that
primitive pterosaurs had scales. In 2018, two
anurognathid specimens were
found to have
integumentary structures similar to protofeathers...
- Pêgas (2024)
independently recovered the same relationships, but with
anurognathids outside of the Monofenestrata. Similarly,
Dalla Vecchia (2022) found...
- synonymous. More
recent studies of
pterosaur relationships have
found anurognathids and
pterodactyloids to be
sister groups,
which would limit the more...
-
rhamphorhynchoids had
become extinct by the end of the Jur****ic Period,
though some
anurognathids persisted to the
early Cretaceous. The
family Wukongopteridae, which...
- 50–75 cm (1 ft 8 in – 2 ft 6 in) and body m**** of 40 g (1.4 oz). Like all
anurognathids Batrachognathus is ****umed to have been an insectivore,
catching insects...
