Ornithocephalus
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The name Ornithocephalus ('bird head') may refer either to
- a genus of orchidOrnithocephalus (orchid)Ornithocephalus is a genus of orchids comprising more than 50 species found in tropical America....
or - an obsolete name once applied to pterosaurPterosaurPterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight...
specimens now classified as PterodactylusPterodactylusPterodactylus is a genus of pterosaurs, whose members are popularly known as pterodactyls. It was the first to be named and identified as a flying reptile...
and RhamphorhynchusRhamphorhynchus (animal)Rhamphorhynchus , "beak snout", 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 diamond-shaped vane...
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