1888 in paleontology
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Dinosaurs
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Aachenosaurus Aachenosaurus Aachenosaurus is a dubious genus of prehistoric plant. It was named based solely on fossilized fragments of material that were originally thought to be jaw fragments from a duck-billed dinosaur . However, the fossils turned out to be petrified wood, to the great embarrassment of the discoverer... |
Misidentification. |
Smets |
Misidentified piece of petrified wood. |
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Ceratops Ceratops Ceratops is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Montana. Although poorly known, Ceratops is important in the history of dinosaurs, since it is the type species for which both Ceratopsia and Ceratopsidae are named... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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... |
Preoccupied by Rafinesque, 1815. Later unnecessarily renamed Proceratops. |
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Cumnoria Cumnoria Cumnoria is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the upper Jurassic period in what is now Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.... |
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Harry Govier Seeley |
Junior subjective synonym of 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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Pleurocoelus |
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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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Priconodon Priconodon Priconodon is an extinct genus of dinosaur , known from its large teeth. Its remains have been found in the Aptian-Albian age Lower Cretaceous Arundel Formation of Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Maryland.-History:... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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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Newly named plesiosaurs
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Trinacromerum Trinacromerum Trinacromerum is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur suborder. It lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kansas. It was 3 meters long. Its teeth show it fed on small fish.... |
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Cragin |
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New taxa
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Ptenodracon |
Preoccupied |
Lydekker |
Preoccupied name, but appears to be a Jr. synonym of Coloborhynchus anyway. |
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Non-mammalian
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Palaeohatteria |
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Phocosaurus Phocosaurus Phocosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*... |
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Seeley |
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