- Breviquartossa.
Anurognathids are
widely believed to have been
nocturnal or
crepuscular akin to bats. The fact that many
anurognathids have
large eye sockets...
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describers argue that
Jeholopterus had a
short tail, a
feature seen in
other anurognathids but
unusual for "rhamphorhynchoid" (i.e. basal)
pterosaurs that typically...
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Pterosaurs spanned a wide
range of
adult sizes, from the very
small anurognathids to the
largest known flying creatures,
including Quetzalcoatlus and...
- full
binomial name
translates as "fluffy
ancient tail." Like
other anurognathids,
Cascocauda was a
small pterosaur with a short, wide
skull and "frog-like"...
- Cretaceous, due to the
discovery of the
anurognathid Vesperopterylus from the
Jiufotang Formation confirming that
anurognathids survived into the
Cretaceous period...
- 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...
- late
Early Jur****ic (Toarcian); they are
thought to been piscivorous.
Anurognathids,
which first appeared in the
Middle Jur****ic,
possessed short heads...
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Vesperopterylus (meaning "dusk wing") is a
genus of
anurognathid pterosaur from the
Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of China, the
geologically youngest...
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mutoudengensis was as
distinct from D.
curvidentatus as
other species of
anurognathids were from each other, and
elevated it to a new
genus and combination...
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Sinomacrops is a
genus of
extinct anurognathid pterosaur from the
Middle to Late Jur****ic
periods of what is now the
Daohugou Beds of the
Tiaojishan Formation...
