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Anurognathids were a group of small pterosaurs, mostly tailess, that lived worldwide during the Jurassic Period. Some examples are Anurognathus
Anurognathus

Anurognathus is a genus of small pterosaur that lived approximately 155-140 million years ago during the late Jurassic Period . It had a short head with pin-like teeth for catching insects and although it traditionally is ascribed to the long tailed pterosaur group , its tail was comparatively short, allowing it more maneuverability for...
 and Batrachognathus
Batrachognathus

Batrachognathus is an extinct genus of Rhamphorhynchoidea pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. The area of the find is similar in habitat to Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany....
. They do have some characteristics in common with the suborder Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs , and contains the most advanced members of this group of flying reptiles. They appeared during the middle Jurassic Period, and differ from the basal rhamphorhynchoidea by their short tails and long wing metacarpals ....
, such as the short and fused tail bones, but they were not closely related.






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Anurognathids were a group of small pterosaurs, mostly tailess, that lived worldwide during the Jurassic Period. Some examples are Anurognathus
Anurognathus

Anurognathus is a genus of small pterosaur that lived approximately 155-140 million years ago during the late Jurassic Period . It had a short head with pin-like teeth for catching insects and although it traditionally is ascribed to the long tailed pterosaur group , its tail was comparatively short, allowing it more maneuverability for...
 and Batrachognathus
Batrachognathus

Batrachognathus is an extinct genus of Rhamphorhynchoidea pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. The area of the find is similar in habitat to Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany....
. They do have some characteristics in common with the suborder Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs , and contains the most advanced members of this group of flying reptiles. They appeared during the middle Jurassic Period, and differ from the basal rhamphorhynchoidea by their short tails and long wing metacarpals ....
, such as the short and fused tail bones, but they were not closely related.