Cascocauda
| Cascocauda | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Family: | †Anurognathidae |
| Subfamily: | †Batrachognathinae |
| Genus: | †Cascocauda Yang et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †C. rong |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cascocauda rong Yang et al., 2022 | |
Cascocauda (meaning "ancient tail") is an extinct genus of anurognathid pterosaurs from the Late–Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Hebei Province, China. The genus contains a single species, C. rong, known from a complete skeleton belonging to a juvenile individual preserved with extensive soft-tissues, including wing membranes and a dense covering of pycnofibres. Some of these pycnofibres appear to be branched, resembling the feathers of maniraptora theropod dinosaurs, suggesting that pterosaur pycnofibres may be closely related to feathers in dinosaurs.