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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... |
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Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
Preoccupied by Fox vide [Anonymous] 1866. Renamed Calamosaurus Calamosaurus Calamosaurus was a genus of small theropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England... . |
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Coelophysis Coelophysis Coelophysis , meaning "hollow form" in reference to its hollow bones , is one of the earliest known genera of dinosaur... |
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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... |
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Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
Junior objective synonym of Cryptosaurus Cryptosaurus Cryptosaurus is a dubious genus of dinosaur known from a partial femur from the Late Jurassic of England.The femur was found by the geologist Lucas Ewbank and donated by him to the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge in 1869. Cryptosaurus was the same year named by British paleontologist Harry Seeley;... . |
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Nodosaurus Nodosaurus Nodosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, the fossils of which are found in North America. Two incomplete specimens have been discovered in Wyoming and Kansas, and no skulls... |
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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... |
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Orinosaurus |
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Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
Junior objective synonym of Orosaurus. |
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Pteropelyx Pteropelyx Pteropelyx is a dubious genus of Late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Judith River Formation of Montana, named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1889. Historically, several species were assigned to it, all based on extremely fragmentary remains, but there is no evidence to support these assignments... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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... |
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Triceratops Triceratops Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene... |
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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... |
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New taxa
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Peloneustes Peloneustes Peloneustes is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the family Pliosauridae. It is known from the Callovian aged deposits of the Oxford clay formation of England... |
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