Rhamphocephalus

Rhamphocephalus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic Bathonian
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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

Referred limb bones

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, Frankfurt 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 Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, September 10th-15th 2012. 33 pp.
  • Rhamphocephalus in the Paleobiology Database.
  • Seeley H.G. 1880. On Rhamphocephalus prestwichi Seeley, an Ornithosaurian from the Stonesfield Slate of Kineton. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. 36: 27-30


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