From 1973 more material has been found including almost complete skulls. In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai (Reck 1931), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into Dsungaripterus brancai, but the identification is now commonly rejected.
It had knobbly flat teeth more to the back of the jaw that were well suited for crushing the armor of shellfish or other hard objects. Dsungaripterus also had a palate similar to that of azhdarchoid pterosaurs. ==History of discovery== Dsungaripterus was described in 1964 named by Yang Zhongjian.
The cladogram of the analysis is shown below. ==See also== List of pterosaur genera Timeline of pterosaur research ==References== Dsungaripterids Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian Fossil taxa described in 1964
From 1973 more material has been found including almost complete skulls. In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai (Reck 1931), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into Dsungaripterus brancai, but the identification is now commonly rejected.
From 1973 more material has been found including almost complete skulls. In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai (Reck 1931), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into Dsungaripterus brancai, but the identification is now commonly rejected.
In 1982 Natasha Bakhurina named a new species, Dsungaripterus parvus, based on a smaller skeleton from Mongolia.
In 2002 a Dsungaripterus wing finger phalanx was reported from Korea. ==Classification== Dsungaripterus was classified by Yang as a member of the Dsungaripteridae.
Later, this was renamed into "Phobetor", a preoccupied name, and in 2009 concluded to be identical to Noripterus.
Below is a cladogram showing the results of a phylogenetic analysis presented by Andres and colleagues in 2014.
Their cladogram is shown below. In 2019, a different topology, this time by Kellner and colleagues, was published.
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