Dendrorhynchoides
| Dendrorhynchoides Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, | |
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| Holotype of D. curvidentatus, Geological Museum of China | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Family: | †Anurognathidae |
| Genus: | †Dendrorhynchoides Ji, Ji & Padian, 1999 |
| Species: | †D. curvidentatus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus (Ji & Ji, 1998) | |
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Dendrorhynchoides was a genus of anurognathid pterosaur containing only the holotype species D. curvidentatus that is known from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Qinglong, northern Hebei Province, China.
The genus was first named Dendrorhynchus in 1998 by Ji Shu'an and Ji Qiang, but that name proved to be preoccupied by a parasitic protozoan named in 1920 by David Keilin. It was therefore renamed in 1999. The type species is Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus. The genus name is derived from Greek dendron, "tree" and rhynkhos, "snout" in reference to it being assumed a tree-dweller and presumed a close relative of Rhamphorhynchus. The specific name means "curved-toothed" in Latin. A second species, D. mutoudengensis, was described in 2012, and moved to a new genus Luopterus in 2020.