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Anchisaurus Anchisaurus Anchisaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph, and was an early herbivorous dinosaur. Until recently it was classed as a member of Prosauropoda. The name comes from the Greek αγχι/agkhi... |
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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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Camptosaurus Camptosaurus Camptosaurus is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America. The name means 'flexible lizard', .... |
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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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Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... |
Possible subjective synonym of Ankistrodon Ankistrodon Ankistrodon is an extinct genus of archosaur first thought to be a dinosaur. It was later determined to be a proterosuchid archosauriform. The type species is A. indicus, described by prolific British zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1865. One authority in the 1970s classified Ankistrodon as a... . |
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Neosodon Neosodon Neosodon was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Sables et Grès à Trigonia gribosa of Départment du Pas-de-Calais, France. It has never been formally given a species name, but is often seen as N. praecursor, which actually comes from a different animal... |
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