Rhamphocephalus
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
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Rhamphocephalus was originally thought to be a pterosaur, but the type species, R. prestwichi, is now considered a thalattosuchian (a marine crocodylomorph).1
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
Fossils of Rhamphocephalus range from about 168 to 155 million years old, from the Bathonian to the Oxfordian stages of the Jurassic.2
Several species once placed in Rhamphocephalus, like Pterodactylus bucklandii, are now considered pterosaurs but not within this genus.1
The holotype (original specimen) of Rhamphocephalus prestwichi is just a fragment of skull roof, which made it hard for scientists to identify correctly.1

Wothetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano: Rhamphocephalus is definitely a pterosaur.
Zoona: The type species is actually a thalattosuchian (a marine crocodylomorph). The pterosaur species once grouped with it are now considered separate.1
Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Rhamphocephalus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Seeley 18805
- Gulu
- Zokwawa zouluka
- Banja / kladi
- Rhamphorhynchidae5
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Pterosauria > Rhamphorhynchidae5
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 168 mpaka 155 miliyoni (Bathonian / Oxfordian)5
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Taynton Limestone, Cotswold Slate, Chipping Norton Limestone5
- Mayiko
- United Kingdom5
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 10 mu The Paleobiology Database5
- Amadziwikanso kuti
- Dolichorhamphus (mayina akale tsopano amawerengedwa ngati nyama yomweyi)5
- Kupezeka
- Harry Seeley named Rhamphocephalus prestwichi in 1880 based on a skull roof fragment found by Professor Prestwich in Gloucestershire, England.1
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are still unsure which pterosaur species belong to Rhamphocephalus, because many of the fossils are incomplete or poorly preserved.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Rhamphocephalus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- PaleoCodex :: Rhamphocephalus (paleocodex.com)
- Rhamphocephalus (prehistoric-wildlife.com)
- Rhamphocephalus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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