Definition of Tropeognathus. Meaning of Tropeognathus. Synonyms of Tropeognathus

- huge azhdarchids. The type and only species is Tropeognathus mesembrinus. Fossil remains of Tropeognathus have been recovered from the Romualdo Formation...
- discoveries include the anhanguerids Tropeognathus and Anhanguera from the Romualdo Formation in Brazil. Tropeognathus was described with its type species...
- Tropeognathinae is defined as "the most inclusive clade containing Tropeognathus mesembrinus but not Coloborhynchus clavirostris or Anhanguera blittersdorffi...
- Tropeognathus mesembrinus, which was named by Peter Wellnhofer in 1987, was ****igned to Ornithocheirus by David Unwin in 2003, making Tropeognathus a...
- Thanatosdrakon amaru 9 m (30 ft) Arambourgiania philadelphiae 8–9 m (26–30 ft) Tropeognathus mesembrinus 8.26–8.7 m (27–29 ft) Pteranodon longiceps 7.25–7.6 m (23...
- 1858) = Pterodactylus ****oni Owen 1858 A. robustus (Wellnhofer 1987) = Tropeognathus robustus Wellnhofer 1987 [also classified as Coloborhynchus] A. ligabuei...
- The Anhangueridae was found to be sister taxon to the large crested Tropeognathus. There are competing theories of ornithocheiromorph phylogeny (evolutionary...
- in Giant of the Skies was actually based on fossils of the pterosaur Tropeognathus, the two having been considered synonyms by David Unwin, one of the...
- known anhanguerid (after a Tropeognathus specimen), and indeed the second largest toothed pterosaur known after Tropeognathus. A referred specimen from...
- known toothed pterosaur, however, a specimen of the closely related Tropeognathus is now thought to have had a larger wingspan. Like many ornithocheiroid...