Ramphorhynchus longiceps
"long tailed beak-snout"

 

 Ramphorhynchus is one of the most common Jurassic pterosaurs, found in the limestone of Germany. It was a fairly primitive pterosaur, and retained a long tail ending in a flared vane, possibly used to keep the tail straight, stabilizing flight. It had long wings for a pterosaur, and despite it's small body it's wingspan reached 2 meters (6ft). Evidence shows that Ramphorhynchus had a beak on the end of it's jaws, extending into an almost pincer-like tip. It could possibly have used it's beak to sift and extract animals from the sand in it's lagoon environment, but it was probably primarily a piscivore, skimming the surface of the water and using its sharp, forwardly-protruding teeth to catch fish. Like other pterosaurs, Ramphorhynchus was covered in a coat of soft, fur-like ptero-fuzz.