Anhangueridae is a group of
pterosaurs
Pterosaurs (; from Greek ''pteron'' and ''sauros'', meaning "wing lizard") is an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order, Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to ...
within the suborder
Pterodactyloidea.
They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth. A recent study discussing the group considered the Anhangueridae to be typified by a premaxillary crest and a lateral expansion in the distal rostrum. The same study presented a
cladistic analysis, for which an "agreement subtree" was calculated. The Anhangueridae was found to be sister taxon to the large crested ''
Tropeognathus''.
Relationships
There are competing theories of ornithocheiromorph
phylogeny (evolutionary relationships). Below is
cladogram following a topology recovered by Brian Andres, using the most recent iteration of his data set.
The cladogram below follows Pêgas ''et al.'' (2019), who recovered Anhangueridae as a much more inclusive group. The analysis found most of the ornithocheirids falling into this family, while ''Ornithocheirus'' itself was recovered as a basal member of
Ornithocheirae.
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References
Pteranodontoids
Early Cretaceous first appearances
Late Cretaceous extinctions
Prehistoric reptile families
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