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Dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Notes
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Actiosaurus Actiosaurus Actiosaurus is an extinct genus of reptile first described by Henri Sauvage in 1883. Little is known of it, and it is considered a nomen dubium. Originally described as a dinosaur, it is now widely considered to be an ichthyosaur. The type species is A. gaudryi .-External links:*....	Misidentification.	Sauvage	Probably the misidentified remains of a dubious ichthyosaur.
Amphisaurus	Preoccupied.	Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...	Preoccupied by Barkas, 1870. Later renamed Anchisaurus.
Rachitrema Rachitrema Rachitrema is a poorly-known genus of prehistoric reptile from the Triassic of France. Its remains were found in France by two independent collectors, towards the end of the nineteenth century. They were only isolated bone fragments....	Misidentification.	Sauvage	Probably the misidentified remains of a dubious ichthyosaur.
Sphenospondylus	Jr. synonym	Harry Govier Seeley	Junior subjective synonym of Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs... .
Thecospondylus Thecospondylus Thecospondylus is a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of EnglandDr. A.C. Horner, an amateur geologist living at Tonbridge, in the nineteenth century acquired a fossil found in the quarry of Southborough...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...	Harry Govier Seeley

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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Edaphosaurus Edaphosaurus Edaphosaurus is a genus of prehistoric synapsid which lived around 303 to 265 million years ago, during the late Carboniferous to early Permian periods. The name Edaphosaurus means "ground lizard" and is derived from the Greek edaphos/εδαφος and σαυρος/sauros...	Valid

Paleontologists

The fossil collection of the recently
1881 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-Paleontologists:* Death of the Reverend William Fox a significant early collector of dinosaur fossils from the Isle of Wight....

deceased Reverend William Fox
William Fox (palaeontologist)
William D. Fox was an English clergyman and palaeontologist who worked on the Isle of Wight and made some significant discoveries of dinosaur fossils....

, which contained over 500 specimens, was bought by the trustees of the British Museum of Natural History.

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