Volgadraco
| Volgadraco Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Speculative reconstruction of Volgadraco as an azhdarchid
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Pteranodontia |
| Genus: | †Volgadraco Averianov et al., 2008[1] |
| Species: | †V. bogolubovi
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| †Volgadraco bogolubovi Averianov et al., 2008[1]
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Volgadraco ("
azhdarchid. However, recent studies have concluded that it may belong to either the family Nyctosauridae,[2] or the family Pteranodontidae.[3]
Volgadraco is known from lower beak (
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov. The authors consider the earlier named genus Bogolubovia to be a nomen dubium that in fact might be identical to Volgadraco;[1] their conclusions are refuted by a 2022 paper, which considers both Volgadraco and Bogolubovia to both be valid pteranodontids.[4]
Phylogeny
The cladogram below shows the
phylogenetic analysis published by Nicholas Longrich and colleagues in 2018. While Volgadraco has been recovered as either an azhdarchid or pteranodontid in some analysis, Longrich and colleagues had recovered it within the family Nyctosauridae instead.[2]
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See also
- Timeline of pterosaur research
- List of pterosaurs
