Saratovia
''Saratovia'' is a genus of targaryendraconian pterosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Russia. The genus contains a single species, ''S. glickmani'', known from a partial lower jawbone, and is named after the city of Saratov, where the specimen was found, and its discover Leonid S. Glickman. The fossil comes from sedimentary rocks of the Melovatka Formation. Uncovered in the 1940s, the only specimen was assigned to various genera such as ''Ornithocheirus'', '' Anhanguera'' and ''Coloborhynchus'' before being recognized as a new taxon and named in 2025. Likewise, though long thought to belong to the family Ornithocheiridae, more recent research lead to the erection of the distinct group Targaryendraconia, of which ''Saratovia'' is thought to be a member. As with other targaryendraconians, ''Saratovia'' would have possessed a narrow and elongate jaw tip filled with long teeth. It is distinguished from these relatives and other pterosaurs by the lack of a gr ...
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