Rhamphocephalus

Rhamphocephalus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic Bathonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: ?Pterosauria
Genus: Rhamphocephalus
Seeley, 1880
Species

Rhamphocephalus prestwichi
Seeley, 1880 (type)

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[1] and Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris Huxley, 1859[2] 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.[3]

See also

References

  1. H. v. Meyer. 1832. Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe; Verlag von Siegmund Schmerber, Franfurt am Main 1-560
  2. T. H. Huxley. 1859. On Rhamphorhynchus bucklandi a new pterosaurian from the Stonesfield Slate. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15:658-670.
  3. O'Sullivan, Michael, 2012. A reappraisal of the taxonomic diversity of British Jurassic pterosaurs. p. 29 in Matt Friedman and Graeme Lloyd (eds.), Programme and Abstracts, 60th Annual Symposium of Vertebrae Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, September 10th-15th 2012. 33 pp.
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