Certains fossiles ont été découverts en Angleterre, mais les mieux préservés proviennent de la carrière de
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Il est équipé d'un large bec garni de dents tranchantes, saillantes, orientées et courbées vers l'avant et s’engrenant, à la fermeture des mâchoires, les unes au contact des autres. It had tiny legs. Rhamphorhynchus (es); Ramforïnxter (kk-tr); Рамфоринхтер (kk-kz); Rhamphorhynchus (ast); Rhamphorhynchus (ca); Rhamphorhynchus (de); Rhamphorhynchus (sq); رامفورینکوس (fa); 喙嘴翼龍屬 (zh); Rhamphorhynchus (ro); 喙嘴翼龍 (zh-hk); Rhamphorhynchus (sv); Rhamphorhynchus (oc); Rhamphorhynchus (la); 喙嘴翼龍 (zh-hant); 喙嘴翼龙 (zh-cn); 람포링쿠스 (ko); Рамфоринхтер (kk); Ramforinko (eo); Rhamphorhynchus (cs); Rhamphorhynchus (it); Rhamphorhynchus (fr); Rhamphorhynchus (fi); Rhamphorhynchus (ga); Rhamphorhynchus (nl); רמפורינקוס (he); ランフォリンクス (ja); Rhamphorhynchus (vo); Ranforrinco (pt); رامفورىينحتەر (kk-arab); Ramforïnxter (kk-latn); Рамфоринхи (ru); Rhamphorhynchus (hu); 喙嘴翼龍 (zh-tw); रैंफोरिंकस (hi); Рамфоринхтер (kk-cyrl); 喙嘴翼龙 (zh-sg); Rhamphorhynchus (war); Ramforynch (pl); Rhamphorhynchus muensteri (nb); Rhamphorhynchus (sh); Rhamphorhynchus (bg); แรมโฟริงคัส (th); Rhamphorhynchus (vi); Rhamphorhynchus (uk); Rhamphorhynchus (en); رامفورىينحتەر (kk-cn); 喙嘴翼龙 (zh-hans); Rhamphorhynchus (ceb) genere di animale della famiglia Rhamphorhynchidae (it); fosszilis hüllőnem (hu); рід викопних плазунів (uk); geslacht uit de familie Rhamphorhynchidae (nl); род вымерших пресмыкающихся (ru); Gattung der Familie Rhamphorhynchidae (de); جنس من الزواحف (أحفوريات) (ar); genus of reptiles (fossil) (en); سردهای از پوزهمنقاران (fa); rod plazů (vymřelých) (cs); род влечуги (bg) Rhamphorhynchidae (it); Pteromonodactylus, Rhamphorynchus, Ornithopterus (pl); Ramphorhynchus (nb); Rhamphorynchus (nl); Rhamphorhynchus, Рамфоринх (ru); Pteromonodactylus, Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, Ornithopterus (de); 람포린쿠스 (ko); Rhamphorhynchus (pt); Rhamphorhynchus (eo); 喙嘴龍, 喙齒龍 (zh); Pteromonodactylus, Ranforrinco, Pterodactylus longicaudus, Rhamphorynchus, Ornithopterus (es)Primer espècimen trobat amb membranes de les ales, Musée de sciences naturelles de Bruxelles Its name means “beak snout.”
Although fragmentary fossil remains possibly belonging to Rhamphorhynchus have been found in England, Tanzania, and Spain, the best preserved specimens come from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany.
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.
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Many of these fossils preserve not only the bones but impressions of soft tissues such as wing membranes.
Rhamphorhynchus is part way through swallowing the small fish, and the teeth of Aspidorhynchus are piercing the wing membrane of Rhamphorhynchus.
The jaws of Rhamphorhynchus housed needle-like teeth, which were angled forward, with a curved, sharp, beak-like tip lacking teeth, indicating a diet mainly of fish; indeed, fish and cephalopodremains are frequently found in Rhamphorhynchus abdo… Rhamphorhynchus, (genus Rhamphorhynchus), flying reptile (pterosaurs) found as fossils from the Late Jurassic Period (159 million to 144 million years ago) in Europe that had a diamond-shaped rudder at its tip of its tail.
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Rhamphorhynchus is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period.
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