Tropeognathus
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Tropeognathus is a genus of large pterosaurs from the late Early Cretaceous of South America. This genus is considered to be a member of the family Anhangueridae, but several studies have also recover
Tropeognathus mesembrinus MN 01
Holotype specimen of T. mesembrinus (BSP 1987 I 46) in multiple views
Restoration of three flying individuals
Skull comparison of different anhanguerians, notice Tropeognathus (E and F) with a well-developed "keeled" crest
Ornithocheirus
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Ornithocheirus is a pterosaur genus known from fragmentary fossil remains uncovered from sediments in the United Kingdom and possibly Morocco.
Tropeognathus
…part of several other genera, leading to an enormous taxonomic confusion. It was considered an Anhanguera mesembrinus by Alexander Kellner in 1989, a Criorhynchus mesembrinus by Veldmeijer in 1998 and a Coloborhynchus mesembrinus by Michael Fastnacht in 2001. Later the same year, David Unwin referred the Tropeognathus…
Ornithocheirus simus
Lithograph of the holotype, showing a tooth which perhaps did not belong with the specimen, and is now lost
Referred specimens MANCH L10832 and NHMUK PV OR 35412
Referred specimens CAMSM 54429 and CAMSM 54677