A Review of the Taxonomy and Palaeoecology of the Anurognathidae (Reptilia, Pterosauria)
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My thanks to Lü Junchang for his friendship and collaborations over the years. I thank Oliver Rauhut, Wang Xaiolin and Lü Junchang for access to specimens and Helmut Tischlinger for access to a cast of the new Anurognathus. Comments on an earlier version of this manuscript from David Martill, two anonymous referees and the editor improved this work. I thank Mark Witton, Mike Habib, Adam Fitch, Chris Bennett, Dave Unwin, Helmut Tischlinger, Yang Zixiao and Lü Junchang for discussions on anurognathid pterosaurs. Leonardo Gomez is thanked for bringing to my attention the duplicated numbers between Luopterus and Boreopterus. Photographs and images were supplied by Lü Junchang, Mark Witton, Helmut Tischlinger, Wang Baopeng and Liu Jun. Ross Elgin did the digital composite work for the combined plate and counterplate image of Jeholopterus.

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    The anurognathids are an enigmatic and distinctive clade of small, non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs with an unusual combination of anatomical traits in the head, neck, wings and tail. They are known from very limited remains and few have been described in detail, and as a result, much of their biology remains uncertain. This is despite their importance as potentially one of the earliest branches of pterosaur evolution or even lying close to the origins of pterodactyloids. This review covers the taxonomy and palaeoecology of the anurognathids, which remain an interesting branch of pterosaurian evolution.

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David W. E. HONE.2020. A Review of the Taxonomy and Palaeoecology of the Anurognathidae (Reptilia, Pterosauria)[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),94(5):1676-1692

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  • Received:November 08,2019
  • Revised:February 03,2020
  • Online: October 26,2020
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