Species
Valid Extinct

Rhamphocephalus bucklandi

(Meyer 1832)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Macronychoptera Unranked clade
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Novialoidea Unranked clade
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Breviquartossa Unranked clade
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Rhamphorhynchidae Family
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Rhamphorhynchinae Subfamily
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Rhamphocephalus Genus
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Rhamphocephalus bucklandi Species
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
Geological formations
Taynton Limestone
4
Oxford Clay
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
4
Synonyms (3)
Pterodactylus aclandi subjective synonym of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Pterodactylus duncani subjective synonym of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Pterodactylus kiddi subjective synonym of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Bibliography
Original description
H. v. Meyer. 1832. Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe; Verlag von Siegmund Schmerber, Franfurt am Main
Bibliography (3)
R. Owen. 1874. The fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part 1. Pterosauria. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 27(126):1-14 DOI ↗
J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗