Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Tropeognathinae

Holgado and Pegas 2020

Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. These pterosaurs were among the last to possess teeth. Members that belong to this group lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods, around 140 to 90 million years ago.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Tropeognathinae
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
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Anhangueridae Family
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Tropeognathinae Subfamily
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia
4
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
Geological formations
Toolebuc
3
Romualdo
2
Winton
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
3
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
B. Holgado and R. V. Pegas. 2020. A taxonomic and phylogenetic review of the anhanguerid pterosaur group Coloborhynchinae and the new clade Tropeognathinae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(4):743-761 DOI ↗
Bibliography (6)
T. M. Richards, P. E. Stumkat, and S. W. Salisbury. 2023. A second specimen of the pterosaur Thapunngaka shawi from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) Toolebuc Formation of North West Queensland, Australia. Cretaceous Research 154(105740):1-18 DOI ↗
T. M. Richards, P. E. Stumkat, and S. W. Salisbury. 2021. A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, north west Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(3):e1946068 DOI ↗
A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, and T. R. Tischler, T. Sloan, R. A. Elliott, H. A. Elliott, J. A. Elliott, D. A. Elliott. 2019. Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian-lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia. Scientific Reports 9(13454) DOI ↗
R. E. Molnar and R. A. Thulborn. 2007. An incomplete pterosaur skull from the Cretaceous of north-central Queensland, Australia. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):461-470
A. J. Veldmeijer. 2002. Pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil in the Stuttgart collection. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 327:1-27
P. Wellnhofer. 1987. New crested pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 27:175-186