Aralazhdarcho is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Santonian to the early Campanian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kazakhstan.
[2] The species Samrukia nessovi, described separately from a partial lower jaw from the same formation, may have possibly been a junior synonym of Aralazhdarcho.
The first one is by American paleontologist Brian Andres, in which he found Aralazhdarcho within the subfamily Quetzalcoatlinae, in a basal (primitive) clade with Phosphatodraco from Morocco.
[6] This close relationship between both azhdarchids would later be demostrated again in a 2023 study by paleontologist Rodrigo Pêgas and colleagues, finding them in a trichotomy with Wellnhopterus from Texas.
Azhdarcho lancicollis Albadraco tharmisensis Aerotitan sudamericanus Mistralazhdarcho maggii Aralazhdarcho bostobensis Phosphatodraco mauritanicus Eurazhdarcho langendorfensis Zhejiangopterus linhaiensis Wellnhopterus brevirostris Cryodrakon boreas Hatzegopteryx thambema Arambourgiania philadelphiae Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni Quetzalcoatlus northropi Cladogram by Pêgas and colleagues (2023).