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I should go.
Bactrachognathus is from the 80s
And Jeholopterus is from something like 2004
So angurognathid have been found for a long time, just without any publicity (Btw, WWD do pictured this little critters as vampires)
The whole idea of portraying them as vampires was cooked up by David Peters, an advertising artist who occasionally did dinosaur art and now considers himself an "expert" on pterosaurs. Problem is, his restorations are downright bonkers, and he used photoshop of all things to produce his bizarre results. He never looked at most of the fossils in person, he just photoshopped pictures of them and misinterpreted digital artifacts of photoshop as ACTUAL soft tissue structures (crazy-long tails with a puff of fuzz at the end, weird sail-like structures on the back, wings too short to fly, crazy crests all over the head and neck that looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, and imaginary vampire fangs (it turns out the "fangs" were really based on a single "fang" which was in reality nothing more than a displace shard of bone on the face, not an actual tooth. In life it would not have stuck out at all. Not only that, he claimed pterosaurs were actually descended from lizards rather than archosaurs, a theory which has no solid evidence to support it (much like the whole "birds are crocodiles not dinosaurs" fringe theory that Feduccia and Martin try to rem down everyone's throats).
Needless to say, Peters' credibility instantly went down the crapper. Which is very sad, since his dinosaur art (and even some of his earlier, more conventional pterosaur art) is actually very well-done.
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Yes WWD did show them as an oxpecker-like animal. They may have done this because they were so small and ate insects. The problem is that Anurognathus itself has never been found in any large sauropod megafauna. It's just known from a few small German islands. So it's all theory (even though it's a very attractive theory and you probably won't find too many people denying it).
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Which... are sometimes parasitic and hemophagic, but mostly helpful to megafauna around them
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Vasika
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