Hamipteridae
Family of anhanguerian pterosaurs
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Hamipteridae (or hamipterids) is a small family of anhanguerian pterosaurs known from the Early Cretaceous of China and Spain.
| Hamipterids Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Skull of Hamipterus on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Anhangueria |
| Clade: | †Hamipteridae Holgado et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Hamipterus tianshanensis Wang et al., 2014 | |
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Classification
The cladogram below follows the topology recovered by Pêgas et al. (2019). In the analysis, they assigned Hamipteridae as the sister taxon of the family Anhangueridae, both within the larger clade Anhangueria.[3]
