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Rhamphocephalus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

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

Rhamphocephalus Wikipedia