Anurognathidae
Among the most adorable of all pterosaurs, these animals were small and fluffy, with gigantic night-piercing eyes. They were the owls and bats of their time and flew after insects through the dark Jurassic forests.
pterosaurs
Anurognathus
The cutest flying furball from prehistory – Anurognathus.
Batrachognathus
Batrachognathus was an anurognathid pterosaur that lived in a habitat similar to the Solnhofen environment of Germany.
Dendrorhynchoides
Dendrorhynchoides was first described from a specimen whose amateur preparators had attached a dinosaur tail to the fossil.
Jeholopterus
Jeholopterus is known from a wonderfully preserved fossil from China. It belongs to a group of unique pterosaurs with short faces and frog-like mouths.
Luopterus
Luopterus is an anurognathid pterosaur from the Tiaojishan Formation of China.
Mesadactylus
The muppet-faced anurognathids of Germany and China are the most famous of their group, but they also had a relative in North America called Mesadactylus.
Sinomacrops
Sinomacrops is a big-eyed, frog-mouthed pterosaur from the Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of China.
Sinuiju Anurognathid
The last known anurognathid lived in Cretaceous North Korea, where it presumably didn't worry about politics at all.
Vesperopterylus
Vesperopterylus had a reversed first toe, which may have helped it cling to trees.