Anurognathus
Genus of anurognathid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anurognathus (from the Greek ανоυρα γναθος "frog jaw") is an extinct genus of small pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Altmühltal Formation of Germany.
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Anurognathus | |
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Diagram of the holotype specimen | |
Scientific 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 | |
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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.