Rhamphorhynchus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Rhamphorhynchus lived during the Late Jurassic and resided in Europe and Africa. The first Rhamphorhynchus fossil was discovered in 1846.
Quick facts about Rhamphorhynchus:
- Existed from 163.5 million years ago to 145 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 26 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Rhamphorhynchus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. Nel and M. Henrotay. 1994. Les Chrysopidae Mésozoïques. État actuel des connaissances. Description d'un nouveau genre et nouvelle espèce dans le Jurassique inférieur (Lias) (Insecta: Neuroptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 30:295-318
- A. Ősi and E. Prondvai. 2009. Forgotten pterosaurus in Hungarian collections: first description of Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus specimens. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 252(2):167-180
- B. P. Pérez-Moreno, D. J. Chure, and C. Pires, C. Marques da Silva, V. Dos Santos, P. Dantas, L. Póvoas, M. Cachão, J. L. Sanz, A. M. Galopim de Carvalho. 1999. On the presence of Allosaurus fragilis (Theropoda: Carnosauria) in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: first evidence of an intercontinental dinosaur species. Journal of the Geological Society, London 156:449-452
