Named By: | Anatoly Nicolaevich Ryabinin in 1948 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic |
Location: | Kazakhstan, Karatau Mountains, Tien Shan foothills |
Size: | Wingspan estimated between 50 and 75 centimetres. Skull 48 millimetres long |
Diet: | Insectivore |
Fossil(s): | Incomplete and disarticulated skeleton that includes skull fragments |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Rhamphorhynchoidea | Anurognathidae | |
Batrachognathus is an extinct genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. The genus was named in 1948 by the Russian paleontologist Anatoly Nicolaevich Ryabinin. The type species is Batrachognathus volans. The genus name is derived from Greek batrakhos, "frog" and gnathos, "jaw", in reference to the short wide head. The specific epithet means "flying" in Latin.