Dendrorhynchoides
Genus of anurognathid pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dendrorhynchoides was a genus of anurognathid pterosaur containing only the holotype species D. curvidentatus that is known from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Qinglong, northern Hebei Province, China.
Dendrorhynchoides | |
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Holotype of D. curvidentatus, Geological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Family: | †Anurognathidae |
Genus: | †Dendrorhynchoides Ji, Ji & Padian, 1999 |
Species: | †D. curvidentatus |
Binomial name | |
†Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus (Ji & Ji, 1998) | |
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The genus was first named Dendrorhynchus in 1998 by Ji Shu'an and Ji Qiang,[1] but that name proved to be preoccupied by a parasitic protozoan named in 1920 by David Keilin. It was therefore renamed in 1999.[2] The type species is Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus. The genus name is derived from Greek dendron, "tree" and rhynkhos, "snout" in reference to it being assumed a tree-dweller and presumed a close relative of Rhamphorhynchus. The specific name means "curved-toothed" in Latin. A second species, D. mutoudengensis, was described in 2012, and moved to a new genus Luopterus in 2020.[3][4]