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Insects
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Tortrix? destructus |
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Priabonian Priabonian The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene epoch or series. It spans the time between and... |
Florissant Formation |
 United States |
A torticid moth |
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Dinosaurs
- Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.
- Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."
- Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data coutersy of George OlshevskyGeorge Olshevsky
George Olshevsky is a freelance editor, writer, publisher, amateur paleontologist, and mathematician living in San Diego, California.Olshevsky maintains the comprehensive online Dinosaur Genera List...
's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.
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| "Scleromochlus Scleromochlus Scleromochlus is an extinct genus of small avemetatarsalian from the Late Triassic period. A lightly built cursorial animal, its phylogenetic position has been debated; as different analyses have found it to be either the basal-most ornithodiran, the sister-taxon to Pterosauria, or a basal member... " |
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Misidentification. |
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Late Triassic Late Triassic The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic period. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic. In the past it was sometimes called the Keuper, after a German lithostratigraphic group that has a roughly corresponding age... |
 Kingdom of Scotland |
Non-dinosaurian archosaur Archosaur Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of modern birds and crocodilians. This group also includes all extinct non-avian dinosaurs, many extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a crown group that includes the most... . |
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Non-mammalian
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Arnognathus Arnognathus Arnognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*... |
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Galechirus Galechirus Galechirus is an extinct genus of therapsid mammal-like reptile. It was about 30 cm long.This lizard-like creature is considered to be a dicynodont by some paleontologists; others think Galechirus is the young of a larger therapsid genus. Judging from its teeth, it was an insectivore.... |
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