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
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
Mapheo a yona a ne a pharaletse hakae?
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E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
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

Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Rhamphocephalus is definitely a pterosaur.
Nnete: The type species is actually a thalattosuchian (a marine crocodylomorph). The pterosaur species once grouped with it are now considered separate.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Rhamphocephalus
- E rehilwe ke
- Seeley 18805
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Rhamphorhynchidae5
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Rhamphorhynchidae5
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 168 ho isa ho 155 (Bathonian / Oxfordian)5
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Taynton Limestone, Cotswold Slate, Chipping Norton Limestone5
- Dinaha
- United Kingdom5
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 10 ho The Paleobiology Database5
- E boetse e tsejwa e le
- Dolichorhamphus (mabitso a kgale jwale a balwa e le phoofolo e le nngwe)5
- Ho sibollwa
- Harry Seeley named Rhamphocephalus prestwichi in 1880 based on a skull roof fragment found by Professor Prestwich in Gloucestershire, England.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are still unsure which pterosaur species belong to Rhamphocephalus, because many of the fossils are incomplete or poorly preserved.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- 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): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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