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RHAMPHOCEPHALUS
(ram-fo-cef-a-lus)
meaning: "Beak head"
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley in 1880
Time Period: Middle Jurassic Bathonian
Location: England, Oxfordshire - Taynton Limestone Formation (Stonesfield Slate)
Size: Estimated 2 meter wingspan
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Several specimens of jaw and wing fragments
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Rhamphorhynchoidea |
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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.

Read more about Rhamphocephalus at Wikipedia
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