Reptilia - Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae

Synonym: Dorygnathus mistelgauensis Wild 1971

Belongs to Dorygnathus according to D. M. Unwin 2003

Sister taxon: Dorygnathus purdoni

Type specimens:

• Dorygnathus banthensis: PSP 757, a mandible (single lower jaw). Its type locality is Banz, which is in a Toarcian marine chalk/marl in the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Germany.
• Dorygnathus mistelgauensis: Private collection of Dr G. Eicken, Bayreuth, a partial skeleton (Radius, ulna, tibia, fibula, partial scapula, humerus, carpus, metacarpus, wing-phalanx, rib, and caudal vertebra). Its type locality is Mistelgau station brick pit, which is in a Toarcian marine limestone/shale in the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Germany.

Ecology: volant piscivore