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Newly named dinosaurs
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Bathygnathus Bathygnathus Bathygnathus was a pelycosaur-grade synapsid, a non-dinosaurian amniote which lived during the Permian Period . The only specimen of Bathygnathus was discovered on Prince Edward Island during the course of a well excavation, in Spring Brook in the New London area and its significance recognized by... |
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Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska contained many species not previously described and many previously... |
Dubious Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... genus of misidentified pelycosaur Pelycosaur The pelycosaurs are an informal grouping composed of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid amniotes. Some species were quite large and could grow up to 3 meters or more, although most species were much smaller... . |
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Leptospondylus |
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Sir Richard Owen |
Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus Massospondylus Massospondylus and ) is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period . It was described by Sir Richard Owen in 1854 from remains found in South Africa, and is thus one of the first dinosaurs to have been named... . |
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Massospondylus Massospondylus Massospondylus and ) is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period . It was described by Sir Richard Owen in 1854 from remains found in South Africa, and is thus one of the first dinosaurs to have been named... |
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Sir Richard Owen |
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Nuthetes Nuthetes Nuthetes is the name given to a dubious, possibly dromaeosaurid, genus of theropod dinosaur, known only from fossil teeth and jaw fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England... |
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Sir Richard Owen |
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Pachyspondylus |
Junior synonym. |
Sir Richard Owen |
Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus Massospondylus Massospondylus and ) is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period . It was described by Sir Richard Owen in 1854 from remains found in South Africa, and is thus one of the first dinosaurs to have been named... . |
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Newly named plesiosaurs
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Deirosaurus |
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Owen |
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Non-mammalian
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Bathygnathus Bathygnathus Bathygnathus was a pelycosaur-grade synapsid, a non-dinosaurian amniote which lived during the Permian Period . The only specimen of Bathygnathus was discovered on Prince Edward Island during the course of a well excavation, in Spring Brook in the New London area and its significance recognized by... |
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