Kevin Padian did not assign it to any family or suborder within Pterosauria, in his original description, but did note that the jugal was unlike that of pterodactyloids, and so may have belonged to a "rhamphorhynchoid", i.e.
Kevin Padian did not initially assign the specimen to any family or suborder within Pterosauria, but observed that its jugal was unlike that of pterodactyloids, leading him to speculate it might have been a member of a "rhamphorhynchoid" group.