Anhangueridae

Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.[2] They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth. A recent study discussing the group considered the Anhangueridae to be typified by a premaxillary crest and a lateral expansion in the distal rostrum. The same study presented a cladistic analysis, for which an "agreement subtree" was calculated. The Anhangueridae was found to be sister taxon to the large crested Tropeognathus.[3]

Anhanguerids
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous,
Anhanguera santanae skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Clade: †Anhangueria
Family: †Anhangueridae
Campos & Kellner, 1985
Type species
†Anhanguera blittersdorffi
Campos & Kellner, 1985
Subgroups

Classification

Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic placement of this group within Pteranodontia from Andres and Myers (2013).[4]

 Pteranodontia 
 Nyctosauridae 
 

Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis

 
 

"Nyctosaurus" lamegoi

 
 

Nyctosaurus gracilis

 
 
 
 

Alamodactylus byrdi

 
 Pteranodontoidea 
 
 

Pteranodon longiceps

 
 

Pteranodon sternbergi

 
 
 
 Istiodactylidae 
 

Longchengpterus zhaoi

 
 
 

Nurhachius ignaciobritoi

 
 
 

Liaoxipterus brachyognathus

 
 
 

Istiodactylus latidens

 
 

Istiodactylus sinensis

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lonchodectes compressirostris

 
 
 

Aetodactylus halli

 
 
 

Cearadactylus atrox

 
 
 

Brasileodactylus araripensis

 
 
 

Ludodactylus sibbicki

 
Ornithocheirae
 Anhangueridae 
 

Liaoningopterus gui

 
 
 

Anhanguera araripensis

 
 
 

Anhanguera blittersdorffi

 
 
 

Anhanguera piscator

 
 

Anhanguera santanae

 
 
 
 
 
 Ornithocheiridae 
 

Tropeognathus mesembrinus

 
 
 

Ornithocheirus simus

 
 
 

Coloborhynchus clavirostris

 
 

Coloborhynchus wadleighi

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The cladogram below follows a topology recovered by Pêgas et al. (2019). In the analyses, they reclassified most of the ornithocheirid genera into this family, while Ornithocheirus was recovered as a basal member of Ornithocheirae.[5]

Anhangueria
Hamipteridae
 

Hamipterus

 
 

Iberodactylus

 
 
Anhangueridae
 

Tropeognathus

 
Coloborhynchinae
 

Coloborhynchus

 
 

Siroccopteryx

 
 

Uktenadactylus

 
 
Anhanguerinae
 
 

Caulkicephalus

 
 

Guidraco

 
 

Ludodactylus

 
 
 
 

Anhanguera

 
 

Liaoningopterus

 
 
 

Cearadactylus

 
 

Maaradactylus

 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. Renan A. M. Bantim; Antônio A. F. Saraiva; Gustavo R. Oliveira; Juliana M. Sayão (2014). "A new toothed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Anhangueridae) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, NE Brazil". Zootaxa. 3869 (3): 201–223. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.1. PMID 25283914.
  2. Campos D. A.; Kellner Alexander W. A. (1985). "Panorama of the flying reptiles study in Brazil and South America". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 57: 453–466.
  3. Rodrigues, Taissa; Kellner, Alexander W. A. (2013). "Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England". ZooKeys (308): 1–112. doi:10.3897/zookeys.308.5559. PMC 3689139. PMID 23794925.
  4. Andres, B.; Myers, T. S. (2013). "Lone Star Pterosaurs". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103 (3–4): 1. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000303. S2CID 84617119.
  5. Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Borja Holgado & Maria Eduarda C. Leal (2019) On Targaryendraco wiedenrothi gen. nov. (Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontoidea, Lanceodontia) and recognition of a new cosmopolitan lineage of Cretaceous toothed pterodactyloids, Historical Biology, doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1690482


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