Dendrorhynchoides
| Dendrorhynchoides Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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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 is a genus of anurognathid pterosaur. It contains only the holotype species, D. curvidentatus, which was likely recovered from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Jinzhou, Liaoning 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, but it was moved to a new genus, Luopterus, in 2020.