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Rhamphocephalus

Erinnya litegeeza: “beak head”1
Yalyanga: EbyennyanjaEbyewalula ebibuukaAmakkati ga Jurasiki okutuuka ku Enkomerero ya JurasikiMu butuufu si dayinoso

Rhamphocephalus was a flying reptile that lived during the Middle Jurassic. It soared over the warm seas of what is now England, snatching fish with its sharp beak. But scientists now think some of its bones actually belong to a different kind of reptile, a marine crocodylomorph!1

Ekyewuunyisa: pterosawulu zaabuukanga waggulu wa dayinoso, naye zaali ab'oluganda lwazo, so si dayinoso zennyini.
Yabeerawo
emyaka obukadde 168 okutuuka ku 155 emabega5
Amakkati ga Jurasiki okutuuka ku Enkomerero ya Jurasiki
Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu
Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom12
Obugazi bw'ebiwaawaatiro
2 m (6.6 ft)34
Sipiidi esinga
nga 48 km/h (30 mph)
Okubuuka, kuteebereza

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Tiriyasi
Jurasiki
Kuretasi
Emyaka obukadde 252 emabega20114566, asteroyidi

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Rhamphocephalus ebiwaawaatiro nga 2 m okuva ku ntikko okutuuka ku ntikko (6.6 ft)Embwa nga 1 m (3.3 ft)Akagaali k'omukulu nga 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Emmotoka nga 4.5 m (15 ft)
obuwanvu nga kkapa 4 ab'awaka, ennyindo ku mukirayandibuuse okusomoka ekisaawe ky'omupiira kyonna mu sikonda 7.9

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1

Rhamphocephalus was originally thought to be a pterosaur, but the type species, R. prestwichi, is now considered a thalattosuchian (a marine crocodylomorph).1

2

The name Rhamphocephalus was used as a 'wastebasket taxon' for many British Jurassic pterosaur remains, meaning it was a catch-all for fossils that didn't fit elsewhere.1

3

Fossils of Rhamphocephalus range from about 168 to 155 million years old, from the Bathonian to the Oxfordian stages of the Jurassic.2

4

Several species once placed in Rhamphocephalus, like Pterodactylus bucklandii, are now considered pterosaurs but not within this genus.1

5

The holotype (original specimen) of Rhamphocephalus prestwichi is just a fragment of skull roof, which made it hard for scientists to identify correctly.1

Kyakolebwa AIEkifaananyi kya Rhamphocephalus ekyakolebwa AI
Ekifaananyi kya Rhamphocephalus ekyakolebwa AI, nga kiraga engeri gye yayinza okuba ng'afaanana, ekyakolebwa kompyuta okusinziira ku ebyo bannassaayansi bye bamanyi. Kuteebereza: ekisolo ekyennyini kiyinza okuba nga kyali kifaanana bulala, era tewali amanyi langi zaakyo ez'amazima.

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: Rhamphocephalus is definitely a pterosaur.

Amazima: The type species is actually a thalattosuchian (a marine crocodylomorph). The pterosaur species once grouped with it are now considered separate.1

Eri abakugu mu dayinoso

Erinnya lya ssaayansi
Rhamphocephalus
Yatuumibwa
Seeley 18805
Ekibinja
Ebyewalula ebibuuka
Ekika / ekibinja
Rhamphorhynchidae5
Engabanya
Pterosauria > Rhamphorhynchidae5
Emyaka gy'enjazi
emyaka obukadde 168 okutuuka ku 155 (Bathonian / Oxfordian)5
Ensengeka z'enjazi
Taynton Limestone, Cotswold Slate, Chipping Norton Limestone5
Ensi
Bungereza5
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa
10 mu The Paleobiology Database5
Era emanyiddwa nga
Dolichorhamphus (amannya ag'edda kati gabalibwa ng'ekisolo kye kimu)5
Okuzuulibwa
Harry Seeley named Rhamphocephalus prestwichi in 1880 based on a skull roof fragment found by Professor Prestwich in Gloucestershire, England.1
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo
Scientists are still unsure which pterosaur species belong to Rhamphocephalus, because many of the fossils are incomplete or poorly preserved.1

Ebituufu gye biva

  1. Rhamphocephalus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
  3. PaleoCodex :: Rhamphocephalus (paleocodex.com)
  4. Rhamphocephalus (prehistoric-wildlife.com)
  5. Rhamphocephalus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.

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