. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. RHAMPHOKHYNCHID^. 31 preserved in the Museum at Yale College, Connecticut, , and is figured by Marsh in the ' Amer. Journ.' ser. 3, vol. xxiii. pi. iii., under the name of R. phyllurus, of which it is the type. The length of the cranium is about 0,091. A restoration is given in woodcut fig. 5. Presented by Prof, 0. 0. Marsh, 1883. Fij?. Restoration of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri. \. {After Marsh.) Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, Meyer l. Sy
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. RHAMPHOKHYNCHID^. 31 preserved in the Museum at Yale College, Connecticut, , and is figured by Marsh in the ' Amer. Journ.' ser. 3, vol. xxiii. pi. iii., under the name of R. phyllurus, of which it is the type. The length of the cranium is about 0,091. A restoration is given in woodcut fig. 5. Presented by Prof, 0. 0. Marsh, 1883. Fij?. Restoration of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri. \. {After Marsh.) Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, Meyer l. Syn. Pterodactylus {Rhamphorhynchus) gemmingi, Meyer2. Ornithocephalus gemmingi, Wagner3. Rhamphorhynchus longimanus, Wagner 4. Rhamphorhynchus meyeri, Owen 5. Of medium size, the length of the cranium being usually about 0,125 ; the extremity of the mandible not upwardly recurved; the scapula and coracoid separate ; and apparently either four or five digits in the pes. Hob. Europe (Germany). R. 231. Cast of a slab of lithographic limestone, showing the cranium and detached mandible. The original, which is the type, was obtained from the Kimeridgian of Stein- bruche, near Solenhofen, Bavaria, and is preserved in the Museum at Munich. It is figured by Goldfuss in the ' Nova Acta Ac. Caes. ' vol. xv. pt. i. pi. xi. 1 Palasontograpkica, vol. i. p. 1 (1846). - hoc cit 3 Abh. Ak. Wiss. vol. vi. p. 190 (1851). 4 Ibid. vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 494 (1858). 5 Liassic Reptilia (Mon. Pal. Soc), pt. ii. p. 80 (1870).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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