- 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...
- 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...
- late
Early Jur****ic (Toarcian); they are
thought to been piscivorous.
Anurognathids,
which first appeared in the
Middle Jur****ic,
possessed short heads...
- (order Siluriformes)
commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes.
Anurognathid pterosaurs had a
rugose (wrinkled) jaw
texture that has been interpreted...
-
estimated by ****uming that
primitive pterosaurs had scales. In 2018, two
anurognathid specimens were
found to have
integumentary structures similar to protofeathers...
- 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...
