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Classification Events
- Harry Govier Seeley divides the Dinosaurs into two taxa based on the configuration of their hip bones.
Newly named dinosaurs
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Aristosuchus Aristosuchus Aristosuchus was a small coelurosaurian dinosaur, whose name was derived from the Greek ἄριστος and σουχος, the Ancient Greek corruption of the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek. It shared many characteristics with birds.Aristosuchus was a bipedal, meat-eating theropod dinosaur... |
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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Ornithodesmus Ornithodesmus Ornithodesmus is a genus of small, deinonychosaurian dinosaur from the Isle of Wight in England, dating to about 125 million years ago. The name was originally assigned to a bird-like sacrum , initially believed to come from a pterosaur... |
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Patricosaurus Patricosaurus "Patricosaurus" is the name given to a dubious and chimeric genus of reptile from the Early Cretaceous. It is based on a femur and sacrum from two animals: the femur from a large lepidosaur, and the sacrum from an archosaur . There is no evidence for "it" being a theropod dinosaur, as it is... |
Misidentification. |
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Chimera of misidentified lepidosaur and archosaur remains. |
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New taxa
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Piptomerus Piptomerus Piptomerus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.... |
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New taxa
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Ornithodesmus Ornithodesmus Ornithodesmus is a genus of small, deinonychosaurian dinosaur from the Isle of Wight in England, dating to about 125 million years ago. The name was originally assigned to a bird-like sacrum , initially believed to come from a pterosaur... |
Misidentification.[2] |
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Misidentified deinonychosaur.[2] |
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Paleontologists
- Death of George Bax HolmesGeorge Bax HolmesGeorge Bax Holmes was a wealthy Quaker and fossil collector in Victorian Horsham. Having started life pursuing a medical career he was able to devote more time to his fossil hunting from 1834. It was in that year that his father died and left him considerable property interests...
, a wealthy fossil collector who collaborated with Sir Richard Owen. His collection remains preserved in Brighton's Booth Museum of Natural History.