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Calamospondylus Calamospondylus Calamospondylus was a theropod dinosaur genus. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, and its fossils were found in England. The type species, Calamospondylus oweni, was described by amateur paleontologist Reverend William D. Fox in 1866, but is based on fragmentary material... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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Euskelosaurus Euskelosaurus Euskelosaurus was a semi-bipedal dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a prosauropod that lived in the Late Triassic Period, in present-day South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. It was first described by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1866 as Euskelesaurus brownii based on holotype BMNH R1625, limb and... |
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Laelaps Laelaps The name Laelaps is a name attributed to the following:*Laelaps was a Greek mythological dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting.*Laelaps is a genus of mites which are ectoparasites of rodents... |
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Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... |
Preoccupied by Koch, 1836. Renamed Dryptosaurus Dryptosaurus Dryptosaurus was a genus of primitive tyrannosaur that lived in Eastern North America during the middle Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period. Although largely unknown now outside of academic circles, a famous painting of the genus by Charles R... . |
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Haptodus Haptodus Haptodus was a small sphenacodont, a clade that includes therapsids and hence, mammals. It was at least in length. It lived from Latest Carboniferous to Early Permian, in the equatorial Pangea. It was a medium-sized predator, feeding on insects and small vertebrates. It is one of the basalmost... |
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Triglyphus Triglyphus Triglyphus is a genus of hoverflies from the family Syrphidae in the order Diptera.-Species:*T. aureus Violovitsh, 1980*T. escalerai Gil Collado, 1929*T. primus Loew, 1840... |
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