Sordes
| Sordes Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
|---|---|
| Fossil specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Clade: | †Breviquartossa |
| Clade: | †Pterodactylomorpha |
| Genus: | †Sordes Sharov, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| †Sordes pilosus Sharov, 1971 | |
Sordes is a genus of small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.
This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov. The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name is Latin for "filth" or "scum"; but Sharov translates it as "nechist", which means "devil" or "evil spirit", so the intended translation is "hairy devil" (the specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa).