Akharhynchus

Akharhynchus (meaning "another snout") is an extinct genus of tropeognathine pteranodontoid pterosaurs possibly from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco. The genus contains a single species, A. martilli, known from a small fragment of the premaxillae.

== Discovery and naming == Fossils of Akharhynchus were first unearthed in an unknown locality near the town of Tafilat in Errachidia Province, southern Morocco. The remains found consist of an isolated premaxilla (upper jaw tip) fragment of a pterosaur, which was found by a commercial fossil dealer who sold it to the Faculté des Sciences Aïn Chock. There it was deposited under specimen number FSAC-KK 12500. Based on the matrix it is preserved in and comparisons with other specimens, it presumably originates from the upper Ifezouane Formation, like many other pterosaurs. The Ifezouane Formation is a formation in the Kem Kem Group, which dates to the Cenomanian and perhaps Albian stages of the Cretaceous period.