Genus
Valid Extinct

Batrachognathus

Riabinin 1948
Etymology Mâchoire de grenouille

Batrachognathus is an extinct genus of anurognathid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. The genus was named in 1948 by the Russian paleontologist Anatoly Nicolaevich Ryabinin. The type species is Batrachognathus volans. The genus name is derived from Greek batrakhos, "frog" and gnathos, "jaw", in reference to the short wide head. The specific epithet means "flying" in Latin.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Batrachognathus
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Skeletal reconstruction of the Batrachognathus volans holotype. © Jaime A. Headden (User:Qilong) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Macronychoptera Unranked clade
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Novialoidea Unranked clade
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Lonchognatha Unranked clade
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Monofenestrata Unranked clade
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Caelidracones Unranked clade
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Anurognathidae Family
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Batrachognathus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
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Geological formations
Karabastau
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Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Batrachognathus volans 162 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. N. Riabinin. 1948. Zametka o letayushchem yashchere iz yury Kara-Tau [Note about a flying reptile from the Jurassic of Kara-Tau]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 1:86-93
Bibliography (1)
A. N. Riabinin. 1948. Zametka o letayushchem yashchere iz yury Kara-Tau [Note about a flying reptile from the Jurassic of Kara-Tau]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 1:86-93