Genus
Valid Extinct

Orientognathus

Lu et al. 2015

Orientognathus is a genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. It is known from a single specimen which includes most of the skeleton and skull, and was first named and described in 2015 by Lü Junchang et al.. The taxon was found in the Upper Jurassic Tuchengzi Formation of China, which is slightly younger than the Tiaojishan Formation that most other Middle Jurassic pterosaurs from the region have been found in. The description study produced a phylogenetic analysis, which determined that Orientognathus was a basal member of Rhamphorhynchidae, possibly within Rhamphorhynchinae.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Macronychoptera Unranked clade
Novialoidea Unranked clade
Breviquartossa Unranked clade
Rhamphorhynchidae Family
Rhamphorhynchinae Subfamily
Orientognathus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Tuchengzi
1
Temporal distribution
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Orientognathus chaoyangensis 143 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
J. Lu, H. Pu, and X. Wei, H. Chang, M. Kundrat. 2015. A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits of Liaoning Province, China. Zootaxa 3911(1):119-129 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J. Lu, H. Pu, and X. Wei, H. Chang, M. Kundrat. 2015. A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits of Liaoning Province, China. Zootaxa 3911(1):119-129 DOI ↗