1893 in paleontology
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Newly named dinosaurs
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Argyrosaurus Argyrosaurus Argyrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous titanosaurid dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America . It was one of the largest dinosaurs, having a length of up to 20–30 metres and a weight estimated as high as eighty tonnes... |
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Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
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Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . |
Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
Possible subjective synonym of Saltasaurus Saltasaurus Saltasaurus is a genus of titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period. Relatively small among sauropods, though still massive by the standards of modern creatures, Saltasaurus was characterized by a diplodocid-like head... . |
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Sarcolestes Sarcolestes Sarcolestes is a genus of early ankylosaurian dinosaur from Middle Jurassic England, Callovian, around 163 million years ago. The type species, Sarcolestes leedsi, was described by Richard Lydekker in 1893, but is based on very fragmentary material, holotype BMNH R2682, consisting of a single left... |
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Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
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New taxa
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Pantosaurus Pantosaurus Pantosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Jurassic of what is now Wyoming. It lived in what used to be the Sundance Sea. It was originally named Parasaurus by Othniel Charles Marsh in reference to Plesiosaurus, but that name was preoccupied, and Marsh changed it... |
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Gordonia Gordonia Gordonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Franklinia, Camellia and Stewartia. Of the roughly 40 species, all but two are native to southeast Asia in southern China, Taiwan and Indochina. The remaining species, G... |
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