Rhamphocephalus bucklandi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhamphocephalusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya161.5 Mya168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Taynton Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.43°WOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°W

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The named rock units Rhamphocephalus bucklandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rhamphocephalus bucklandi and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Rhamphocephalus bucklandi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rhamphocephalus bucklandi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rhamphocephalus bucklandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhamphocephalus bucklandi was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhamphocephalus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1832)