Named By: | Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov in 1971 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 155.7 Ma |
Location: | Kazakhstan, Karatau |
Size: | Approximately 63 centimetre wingspan |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | 6 individual specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosaur | Rhamphorhynchoidea | Rhamphorhynchidae | |
Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.
The genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov. The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name means "filth" or "scum" in Latin, a reference to evil spirits in local folklore. The specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa.