| Sordes Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Clade: | †Breviquartossa |
| Clade: | †Pterodactylomorpha |
| Genus: | †Sordes Sharov, 1971 |
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| †Sordes pilosus Sharov, 1971
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Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.
This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov.[1] The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name is Latin for "filth" or "scum"; but Sharov translates it as "nechist", which means "devil" or "evil spirit", so the intended translation is "hairy devil"[2] (the specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa[original research?]).
- ^ Sharov, A. G. 1971 Novyiye lyetayushchiye reptili iz myezozoya Kazakhstana i Kirgizii [New flying reptiles from the Mesozoic of Kazakhstan and Kirghizia]. Trudy paleont. Inst. Moscow. Russian text with end plates.
- ^ Bakhurina, N.N.; Unwin, D.M. (1995). "The evidence for 'hair' in Sordes and other pterosaurs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15.