Batrachognathus Riabinin 1948 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Anurognathidae

Full reference: A. N. Riabinin. 1948. Zametka o letayushchem yashchere iz yury Kara-Tau [Note about a flying reptile from the Jurassic of Kara-Tau]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 1:86-93

Parent taxon: Anurognathinae according to J. Lu et al. 2015

See also Andres et al. 2010, Andres et al. 2014, Bakhurina and Unwin 1995, Charig 1967, Hone 2020, Riabinin 1948, Unwin 2003, Unwin and Bakhurina 2000 and Wei et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Anurognathus, Batrachognathinae, Dendrorhynchoides, Jeholopterus, Luopterus, Vesperopterylus

Subtaxa: Batrachognathus volans

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Type: Batrachognathus volans

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Aulie, Mikhailovka, Karatau [PIN Loc. 2585] (Jurassic of Kazakhstan)

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