Genus: Rhamphocephalus non SEELEY, 1880 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Greek, rhamphos, "beak" and Greek, kephale, "head," + us.
= Rhamphocephalus ROMER, 1966 (sic)

Species: ? depressirostris (HUXLEY, 1859) LYDEKKER, 1888 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Latin, depress, “press-down” and Latin, rostrum, “snout.”
= Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris HUXLEY, 1859 (nomen dubium)
= Pterodactylus raptor OWEN in WATERHOUSE, 1878 (nomen nudum)

Holotype: GSM 113723

Locality: "Smith's Quarry", at Sarsden, near Chipping Norton, Oxforshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Fuller's Earth Formation, Great Oolite Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Portion of mandible, ulna and wing phalange.

Referred material:

Also from same quarry; LYDEKKER, 1888

NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R 47991: Fragmentary right ramus of a mandible.

 

Locality: Stonesfield, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Taynton Limestone Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R 40126j: Ulna.

NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R 40126c: 1st phalangeal of the ulnar digit of the manus.

NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R 401261, 40126k: A 2nd or 3rd phalangeal of the homologous digit.

NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R 40126m, 40126n: A terminal phalangeal of the ulnar digit of the manus.

NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R 40126o: The proximal portion of a similar bone.

 

EVANS & MILNER, 1994


Locality: Eyeford Hill Quarry (SP 132252), Gloucestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Cotswold Slate.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

Locality: Kineton Thorns Quarry (SP 123263), Gloucestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Cotswold Slate.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: