| Balaenognathus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Family: | †Ctenochasmatidae |
| Genus: | †Balaenognathus Martill et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †B. maeuseri
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| †Balaenognathus maeuseri Martill et al., 2023
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Balaenognathus (meaning "bowhead whale jaw") is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaurs from the Late Jurassic Torleite Formation of Bavaria, Germany. The genus contains a single species, B. maeuseri, known from a nearly-complete, articulated skeleton.[1]
- ^ Martill, David M.; Frey, Eberhard; Tischlinger, Helmut; Mäuser, Matthias; Rivera-Sylva, Héctor E.; Vidovic, Steven U. (2023-01-21). "A new pterodactyloid pterosaur with a unique filter-feeding apparatus from the Late Jurassic of Germany". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00644-4. ISSN 0031-0220.