1865 in paleontology
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Ankistrodon Ankistrodon Ankistrodon is an extinct genus of archosaur first thought to be a dinosaur. It was later determined to be a proterosuchid archosauriform. The type species is A. indicus, described by prolific British zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1865. One authority in the 1970s classified Ankistrodon as a... |
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
Misidentified proterosuchian archosaur. |
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Coelosaurus |
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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... |
Preoccupied by a name erected in an Anonymous Anonymity Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a... paper now known to have been written by Sir Richard Owen in 1854. Later renamed Ornithomimus Ornithomimus Ornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.In 1890 Ornithomimus velox was named by Othniel Charles Marsh on the basis of a foot and partial hand from the Maastrichtian Denver Formation. Another seventeen species have been named since... . |
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Megadactylus |
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Hitchcock |
Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843. Later renamed Amphisaurus. |
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Polacanthus Polacanthus Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek poly-/πολυ- "many" and acantha/ακανθα "thorn" or "prickle", was an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaur from the early Cretaceous period. Early depictions often gave it a very vague head as it was only known from the rear half of the... |
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Sir Richard Owen vide Anonymous Anonymity Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a... . |
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Tomodon Tomodon Tomodon is a genus of colubrid snakes. Two species are currently recognized.* Tomodon dorsatus - Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854 * Tomodon ocellatus - Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854... |
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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... |
Preoccupied by Dumeril 1853. Latrer renamed Diplotomodon. |
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Newly named plesiosaurs
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Archaeonectrus Archaeonectrus Archaeonectrus is an extinct genus of pliosaur from the Jurassic of what is now southeastern England. The type species is Archaeonectrus rostratus, first named by Sir Richard Owen in 1865, and renamed by N.I. Novozhilov 99 years later.-References:* Sepkoski, J.J. . "A compendium of fossil marine... |
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Piratosaurus Piratosaurus Piratosaurus is an aquatic genus of plesiosaur with one eye. Plesiosaurs are real dinosaurs, despite what you may hear from "experts". Piratosaurus had a triangular hat-like cranial bone structure, and "cannon arms" akin to the pistol shrimp which could kill large mosasaurs with a single blast... |
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