Ornithocephalus
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The name Ornithocephalus ('bird head') may refer either to
  • a genus of orchid
    Ornithocephalus (orchid)
    Ornithocephalus is a genus of orchids comprising more than 50 species found in tropical America....

     or
  • an obsolete name once applied to pterosaur
    Pterosaur
    Pterosaurs 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 Pterodactylus
    Pterodactylus
    Pterodactylus 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 Rhamphorhynchus
    Rhamphorhynchus (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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