Anhangueria is a group of pterosaurs belonging to the clade Pteranodontoidea. Fossil remains of this group date back from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods, around 140 to 92.5 million years ago. Anhangueria was named by paleontologists Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Kellner in a review of Ornithocheirus species in 2013, they defined the clade as a branch-based taxon consisting of all pteranodontoids more closely related to Anhanguera blittersdorffi than to Istiodactylus latidens and Cimoliopterus cuvieri.
Image: Iberodactylus and Hamipterus snouts
Image: Guidraco venator 324
Life restoration of the anhanguerid Caulkicephalus trimicrodon
Skull comparisons of Hamipterus (A and B), Ludodactylus (C), Caulkicephalus (D), Tropeognathus (E and F), Anhanguera (G and H), and Uktenadactylus (I and J)
Pteranodontoidea is an extinct clade of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Early to Late Cretaceous of Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America. It was named by Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner in 1996. In 2003, Kellner defined the clade as a node-based taxon consisting of the last common ancestor of Anhanguera, Pteranodon and all its descendants. The clade Ornithocheiroidea is sometimes considered to be the senior synonym of Pteranodontoidea, however it depends on its definition. Brian Andres in his analyses, converts Ornithocheiroidea using the definition of Kellner (2003) to avoid this synonymy.
Pteranodontoidea
Lectotype rostrum of Lonchodraco giganteus, the first ever known pteranodontoid
Skull elements of the specimens NHMUK R3877 and R176 of Istiodactylus, and the 1913 long-jawed skull reconstruction by Reginald Hooley