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The Australian pterosaur record is poor by world standards, comprising fewer than 20 fragmentary specimens. Herein, we describe the new genus and species  Ferrodraco lentoni  gen. et sp. nov., based on the most complete pterosaur specimen ever found in Australia, and the first reported from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian). The presence of premaxillary and mandibular crests, and spike-shaped teeth with subcircular bases, enable  Ferrodraco  to be referred to Anhangueria.  Ferrodraco  can be distinguished from all other anhanguerian pterosaurs based on two dental characters: the first premaxillary and mandibular tooth pairs are small; and the fourth–seventh tooth pairs are smaller than the third and eighth ones.  Ferrodraco  was included in a phylogenetic analysis of Pterosauria and resolved as the sister taxon to  Mythunga camara  (upper Albian Toolebuc Formation, Australia), with that clade occupying the most derived position within Ornithocheiridae.  Ornithocheirus simus  (Albian Cambridge Greensand, England),  Coloborhynchus clavirostris  (Valanginian Hastings Sands, England), and  Tropeognathus mesembrinus  (upper Aptian–lower Albian Romualdo Formation, Brazil) were resolved as successive sister taxa, which suggests that ornithocheirids were cosmopolitan during the Albian–Cenomanian. Furthermore, the stratigraphic age of  Ferrodraco lentoni  (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) implies that anhanguerians might have survived later in Australia than elsewhere.

Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia