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Dinosaurs
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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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Harry Govier Seeley |
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Gigantosaurus Gigantosaurus Gigantosaurus is a poorly known sauropod dinosaur genus from England. The type species, Gigantosaurus megalonyx, was named and described by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Harry Govier Seeley |
Possible subjective synonym of Pelorosaurus Pelorosaurus Pelorosaurus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur. Pelorosaurus was one of the first sauropod dinosaurs ever discovered. Pelorosaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 138-112 million years ago. Fossils referred to Pelorosaurus have been found in England and Portugal... . |
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Hypselosaurus Hypselosaurus Hypselosaurus was a long titanosaurid sauropod that lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous Period .Hypselosaurus was scientifically described by geologist Pierre Émile Philippe Matheron in 1846 and formally named in... |
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Hypsibema Hypsibema Hypsibema is a little-known genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous . Its giant fossils were found in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Missouri... |
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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Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon is an ornithopod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of Europe. It was a small bipedal animal with an herbivorous or possibly omnivorous diet... |
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Ornithotarsus |
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... |
Possible subjective synonym of Hadrosaurus Hadrosaurus Hadrosaurus is a valid genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. In 1858, a skeleton of a dinosaur from this genus was the first dinosaur skeleton known from more than isolated teeth to be found in North America. In 1868, it became the first ever mounted dinosaur skeleton... . |
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Rhabdodon Rhabdodon Rhabdodon is a genus of dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 70 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. It is unclear whether it was an iguanodont or a hypsilophodont, and may be a "missing link" between the two. Current evidence indicates it is an iguanodont similar to Tenontosaurus... |
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Matheron |
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Stereosaurus Stereosaurus "Stereosaurus" is the name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of possible dinosaur or plesiosaur. Among the species are: "Stereosaurus platyomus", "S. cratynotus" and "S. stenomus", all coined by British paleontologist Harry Seeley, who considered them to be plesiosaurian, in 1869... |
Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy... |
Harry Govier Seeley |
Probably a misidentified plesiosaur. |
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New taxa
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Crymocetus Crymocetus Crymocetus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.... |
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Cope |
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Polycotylus Polycotylus Polycotylus is a genus of plesiosaur within the family Polycotylidae. The type species is P. latippinis and was named by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1869. Eleven other species have been identified. The name means 'much-cupped vertebrae', referring to the shape of the vertebrae... |
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Cope |
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Stereosaurus Stereosaurus "Stereosaurus" is the name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of possible dinosaur or plesiosaur. Among the species are: "Stereosaurus platyomus", "S. cratynotus" and "S. stenomus", all coined by British paleontologist Harry Seeley, who considered them to be plesiosaurian, in 1869... |
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New taxa
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Ornithocheirus Ornithocheirus Ornithocheirus was a pterosaur from the Cretaceous period of Europe and South America... |
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Seeley |
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Ptenodactylus |
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Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus. |
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