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Dinosaurs
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Arctosaurus Arctosaurus Arctosaurus is a genus of extinct reptile originally classified as a small reptile of unknown affinities, but was often classified as a sauropodomorph dinosaur in the years to follow... |
Misidentification. |
Adams |
Dubious genus of non-dinosaurian reptile. |
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Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus is an dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic.The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffossus means "undermined" in Latin, a reference to the fact that pleurocoels had hollowed out... |
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Sir Richard Owen |
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Marmarospondylus |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Sir Richard Owen |
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Omosaurus |
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Sir Richard Owen |
Preoccupied by Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska contained many species not previously described and many previously... , 1856. Later renamed Dacentrurus Dacentrurus Dacentrurus , originally known as Omosaurus, was a large stegosaur of the Late Jurassic Period .-Description:... . |
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Priodontognathus Priodontognathus Priodontognathus was a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur possibly from the Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic Lower Calcareous Grit of Yorkshire, England... |
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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New taxa
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Doratorhynchus Doratorhynchus Doratorhynchus is a generic replacement name for Pterodactylus validus, in 1875 suggested by Harry Govier Seeley. Today it is considered a nomen vanum.... |
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Non-mammalian
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Clepsydrops Clepsydrops Clepsydrops was a primitive amniote from the early Late Carboniferous that was related to Archaeothyris and the synapsids—the ancestors of mammals. Like many other terrestrial early amniotes, it had the diet of insects and smaller animals. It also laid eggs on land rather than in the water, as... |
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