Rhamphorhynchus
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Time period lived | Oxfordian |
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Tithonian | |
Clade | †Rhamphorhynchini |
Famili | †Rhamphorhynchidae |
Genus | †Rhamphorhynchus; Meyer, 1846 |
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ID | 4033745 |
About Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorhynchus is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period. Less specialized than contemporary, short-tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus, it had a long tail, stiffened with ligaments, which ended in a characteristic soft-tissue tail vane.