Rhamphocephalus depressirostris Huxley 1859 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae

Alternative combination: Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris

Full reference: 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

Belongs to Rhamphocephalus according to H. G. Seeley 1880

See also Huxley 1859 and O'Sullivan and Martill 2018

Sister taxa: Rhamphocephalus bucklandi, Rhamphocephalus prestwichi

Type specimen: GSM 113723, a mandible. Its type locality is Sarsden, Chipping Norton, which is in a Bathonian marine limestone in the Sharp's Hill Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Sarsden, Chipping Norton

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