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Family of anhanguerian pterosaurs
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]
Relationships
[
edit
]
There are competing theories of ornithocheiromorph
phylogeny
(evolutionary relationships). Below is
cladogram
following a topology recovered by Brian Andres, using the most recent iteration of his data set.
[4]
The cladogram below follows Pegas
et al.
(2019), who recovered Anhangueridae as a much more inclusive group. The analysis found most of the ornithocheirids falling into this family, while
Ornithocheirus
itself was recovered as a basal member of
Ornithocheirae
.
[5]
The clagogram below is reproduced from Richards
et al
., (2023), who based their data matrix on the data matrix in Holgado and Pegas, (2020). In the paper they erect the clade
Mythungini
which comprises all Australian
tropeognathines
.
[6]
References
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Renan A. M. Bantim; Antonio A. F. Saraiva; Gustavo R. Oliveira; Juliana M. Sayao (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
.
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Campos, D. A. & Kellner, Alexander W. A. (1985). "Panorama of the flying reptiles study in Brazil and South America".
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
.
57
: 453?466.
- ^
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
.
- ^
Andres, B. (2021).
"Phylogenetic systematics of
Quetzalcoatlus
Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)"
.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
.
41
: 203?217.
doi
:
10.1080/02724634.2020.1801703
.
S2CID
245078533
.
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Pegas, Rodrigo V.; Holgado, Borja & Leal, Maria Eduarda C. (2019). "On
Targaryendraco wiedenrothi
gen. nov. (Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontoidea, Lanceodontia) and recognition of a new cosmopolitan lineage of Cretaceous toothed pterodactyloids".
Historical Biology
.
33
(8): 1266-1280.
doi
:
10.1080/08912963.2019.1690482
.
S2CID
209595986
.
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Richards, Timothy; Stumkat, Paul; Salisbury, Steven (6 October 2023).
"A second specimen of the pterosaur Thapunngaka shawi from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) Toolebuc Formation of North West Queensland, Australia"
.
Cretaceous Research
.
doi
:
10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105740
. Retrieved
7 October
2023
.