 The sharp snout is straight and not pointed upwards as with "Dsungaripterus".Because of its similarity to "Dsungaripterus", "Noripterus" has been assigned to the family Dsungaripteridae.The genus "Phobetor", was in 1982 originally described by Natasha Bakhurina as a species of "Dsungaripterus" ("D. parvus"), based on a single lower leg bone, PIN 3953.