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 tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
Diphuka tsa yona di ne di namegile go le kae?
telele jaaka dikatse tsa mo gae di le 4 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng⚽e ne e ka fofa go kgabaganya lebala lotlhe la kgwele ya dinao mo metsotswaneng e le 7.9Rhamphocephalus e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sebatling sa gago. Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di 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

Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Rhamphocephalus is definitely a pterosaur.
Boammaaruri: The type species is actually a thalattosuchian (a marine crocodylomorph). The pterosaur species once grouped with it are now considered separate.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Rhamphocephalus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Seeley 18805
- Setlhopha
- Digagabi tse di fofang
- Lelapa / clade
- Rhamphorhynchidae5
- Thulaganyo
- Pterosauria > Rhamphorhynchidae5
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 168 go ya go 155 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Bathonian / Oxfordian)5
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Taynton Limestone, Cotswold Slate, Chipping Norton Limestone5
- Dinaga
- Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng5
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 10 mo The Paleobiology Database5
- E itsiwe gape e le
- Dolichorhamphus (maina a bogologolo jaanong a balwa jaaka phologolo e le nngwe)5
- Go fitlhelwa
- Harry Seeley named Rhamphocephalus prestwichi in 1880 based on a skull roof fragment found by Professor Prestwich in Gloucestershire, England.1
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still unsure which pterosaur species belong to Rhamphocephalus, because many of the fossils are incomplete or poorly preserved.1
Kwa 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): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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