Lonchognathosaurus Maisch et al. 2004 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Dsungaripteridae

Full reference: M. W. Maisch, A. T. Matzke, and G. Sun. 2004. A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China. Cretaceous Research 25:625-634

Parent taxon: Dsungaripteridae according to M. W. Maisch et al. 2004

See also Andres et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Banguela, Domeykodactylus, Dsungaripterus, Noripterus

Subtaxa: Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris

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Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Liuhonggou, 40 km south-west of Urumqi (Cretaceous of China)

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