Batrachognathus volans 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

Belongs to Batrachognathus according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Charig 1967, Hone 2020, Riabinin 1948, Unwin 2003 and Wei et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 52-2, a skeleton (Well preserved skull and semi-complete postcranium). Its type locality is Aulie, Mikhailovka, Karatau [PIN Loc. 2585], which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Aulie, Mikhailovka, Karatau [PIN Loc. 2585]

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