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What's a rhamphorhynchus?

What kind of animal is a rhamphorhynchus? do you know?

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  • Bobby
    Lv 6
    8 years ago
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    Rhamphorhynchus was NOT a dinosaur. Don't listen to that dumbass. It was a small pterosaur, and pterosaurs were not dinosaurs.

    Source(s): Wikipedia
  • 8 years ago

    Rhamphorhynchus (beak snout) is fossil of extinct dinosaurs of Jurassic period belonging to Pterosauria group. It had tail and wings in form of a vane. Jaws had needle-like teeth, which were angled forward, with a curved, sharp, beak-like tip lacking teeth, indicating a diet mainly of fish and insects.

    Rhamphorhynchus is also a genus of orchid plants.

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