Anurognathus

Anurognathus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, 150.8–148.5 Ma
Diagram of the holotype specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Family: Anurognathidae
Subfamily: Anurognathinae
Nopcsa, 1928
Genus: Anurognathus
Döderlein, 1923
Species:
A. ammoni
Binomial name
Anurognathus ammoni
Döderlein, 1923

Anurognathus (from the Greek ανоυρα γναθος "frog jaw") is an extinct genus of small pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Altmühltal Formation of Germany.

Anurognathus was first named and described by Ludwig Döderlein in 1923.[1] The type species is Anurognathus ammoni. The specific name ammoni honours the Bavarian geologist Ludwig von Ammon, from whose collection Döderlein had acquired the fossil in 1922.

  1. ^ Döderlein, L. (1923). "Anurognathus Ammoni, ein neuer Flugsaurier". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Abteilung der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München, 1923, 306-307.