Azhdarchoidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs , and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles...

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Classification

Listing of families and genera after Unwin 2006 except where specified.

• Superfamily Azhdarchoidea
  • Genus "Aurorazhdarcho
    Aurorazhdarcho
    Aurorazhdarcho is an extinct genus of azhdarchoid pterosaur known from the Late Jurassic of Bavaria, southern Germany.-Discovery and naming:...
    
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  • Family Chaoyangopteridae
    Chaoyangopteridae
    The Chaoyangopteridae are a family of pterosaurs within the Azhdarchoidea.The clade Chaoyangopteridae was first defined in 2008 by Lü Junchang and David Unwin as: "Chaoyangopterus, Shenzhoupterus, their most recent common ancestor and all taxa more closely related to this clade than to Tapejara,...
    
    
  • Family Lonchodectidae
  • Family Tapejaridae
    Tapejaridae
    Tapejaridae are a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the early Cretaceous period. Members are currently known from Brazil and China, where the most primitive genera are found, indicating that the family has an Asian origin....
    
    
  • Family Thalassodromidae
    Thalassodromidae
    Thalassodromidae is a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the early Cretaceous period of Brazil. It contains two genera, Thalassodromeus and Tupuxuara.-Classification:The classification of thalassodromids is controversial...
    
    
  • Family Azhdarchidae
    Azhdarchidae
    Azhdarchidae is a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous Period, though an isolated vertebrae apparently from an azhdarchid is known from the early Cretaceous as well...
    
    
  • Possible valid azhdarchoid genera
    • Bennettazhia
      Bennettazhia
      Bennettazhia is a genus of pterosaur .In 1928 Charles Gilmore named a new species of Pteranodon: P. oregonensis. A humerus , two fused dorsal vertebrae and the broken-off end of some joint bone had been unearthed from the Lower Cretaceous beds of the Hudspeth Formation in Wheeler County, in the...
      
      
    • Bogolubovia
      Bogolubovia
      Bogolubovia is a genus of pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Rybushka Formation of Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is named for Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the palaeontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It has in 1991 been assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnhofer however,...
      
      
    • Doratorhynchus
      Doratorhynchus
      Doratorhynchus is a generic replacement name for Pterodactylus validus, in 1875 suggested by Harry Govier Seeley. Today it is considered a nomen vanum....
      
      
    • "Ornithocheirus" bunzeli

Phylogeny

There are currently two primary but competing views of azhdarchoid relationships. The first, presented by Felipe Pinheiro and colleagues in 2011, considers the tapejarids to be a monophyletic clade including the thalassodromines and chaoyangopterines. The second, found by Lu et al. 2008 as well as Naish & Martill 2006, considers the tapejarids to be a paraphyletic grade of primitive azhdarchoids. All azhdarchoids closer to Azhdarcho than to Tapejara are included in the clade Neoazhdarchia ("new azhdarchids").