- Breviquartossa.
Anurognathids are
widely believed to have been
nocturnal or
crepuscular akin to bats. The fact that many
anurognathids have
large eye sockets...
-
Pterosaurs spanned a wide
range of
adult sizes, from the very
small anurognathids to the
largest known flying creatures,
including Quetzalcoatlus and...
-
describers argue that
Jeholopterus had a
short tail, a
feature seen in
other anurognathids but
unusual for "rhamphorhynchoid" (i.e. basal)
pterosaurs that typically...
- late
Early Jur****ic (Toarcian); they are
thought to been piscivorous.
Anurognathids,
which first appeared in the
Middle Jur****ic,
possessed short heads...
-
rhamphorhynchoids had
become extinct by the end of the Jur****ic Period,
though some
anurognathids persisted to the
early Cretaceous. The
family Wukongopteridae, which...
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estimated by ****uming that
primitive pterosaurs had scales. In 2018, two
anurognathid specimens were
found to have
integumentary structures similar to protofeathers...
-
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...
- synonymous. More
recent studies of
pterosaur relationships have
found anurognathids and
pterodactyloids to be
sister groups,
which would limit the more...
- (order Siluriformes)
commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes.
Anurognathid pterosaurs had a
rugose (wrinkled) jaw
texture that has been interpreted...
-
structures of the
anurognathid specimens is
still based gross morphology as
Liliana D'Alba
pointed out. The
pycnofibres of the two
anurognathid specimens might...
