Order ?Pterosauria Rank Genus | Class Sauropsida Phylum Chordata | |
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Similar Angustinaripterus, Kepodactylus, Araripesaurus, Tendaguripterus, Harpactognathus | ||
Rhamphocephalus ("beak head") is an extinct genus of diapsid from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Stonesfield Slate of Oxfordshire, England.
The type species, R. prestwichi, is known from a skull roof fragment.
Misassigned species
Pterodactylus bucklandii von Meyer, 1832 and Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris Huxley, 1859 have been usually assigned to this genus, but a 2012 abstract suggests that the Rhamphocephalus type species is apparently non-pterosaurian, whereas "P." bucklandii and "R." depressirostris are genuinely pterosaurian, and therefore in need of new generic names.
References
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