1860 In Paleontology
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Elephantomyia Brevipalpa
''Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) brevipalpa'' is an extinct species of crane fly in the family Limoniidae. The species is solely known from the Middle Eocene Baltic amber deposits in the Baltic Sea region of Europe. The species is one of six described from Baltic amber. History and classification ''Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) brevipalpa'' is known from the holotype specimen, collection number MB.J.337, along with two further adults which are preserved as inclusions in transparent Baltic amber. As of 2015, two of the amber specimens were included in the collections of the University of Göttingen, while the third was housed at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Baltic amber is recovered from fossil bearing rocks in the Baltic Sea region of Europe. Estimates of the age date between 37 million years old, for the youngest sediments and 48 million years old. This age range straddles the middle Eocene, ranging from near the beginning of the Lutetian to the beginning of the Pribonian. ...
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Anhanguera
Anhanguera may refer to: People * Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (1672–1740), a bandeirante Places in Brazil * Anhanguera, Goiás, a municipality in the state of Goiás * Anhanguera (district of São Paulo), a district in São Paulo * Parque Anhanguera, a municipal park in São Paulo * Rede Anhanguera de Comunicação (RAC), a mass communication company from Campinas * Rodovia Anhanguera, a highway in the state of São Paulo Other meanings *Anhanguera (devil), in Brazilian mythology * ''Anhanguera'' (pterosaur) * Anhanguera Educacional, an educational company * CDT da Anhanguera The Centro de Televisão da Anhanguera, popularly known as CDT da Anhanguera, is the second largest center of television production in Brazil and is the headquarters of the Brazilian TV company SBT. The complex is second only to the Estúdios Glob ...

Oudenodon
''Oudenodon'' is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of ''Oudenodon'' are known. Both ''O. bainii'', the type species, and ''O. grandis'' are known from South Africa. Specimens of ''O. luangwensis'' have been found from Zambia. One species, ''O. sakamenensis'', is the only Permian therapsid yet known from Madagascar.Mazin, J. M. and King, G. M. (1991). The first dicynodont from the Late Permian of Malagasy. ''Palaeontology'' 34:837–842. It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as '' Tropidostoma''. See also * List of therapsids References The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive External links ''Oudenodon''in the Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) or ...
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Eurosaurus
''Eurosaurus'' is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids. Its taxonomic history is intertwined with that of the therapsids ''Brithopus'' and '' Orthopus'' and the temnospondyl ''Melosaurus''. In the 1830s and 1840s, Permian fossils were found in copper-bearing sandstones of Orenburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. Among these bones was a partial humerus, which Fischer van Waldheim described as ''Eurosaurus'' in 1841 or 1842. Fischer did not name a type species, and did not figure the type specimen, the identity of which is uncertain. In 1860, Eichwald united ''Eurosaurus'', ''Brithopus'', ''Orthopus'', and ''Melosaurus uralensis'' under the name ''Eurosaurus uralensis''. In 1866, von Meyer separated ''Melosaurus'' from ''Eurosaurus'', and described ''Eurosaurus'', ''Brithopus'', and ''Orthopus'' under the name ''Eurosaurus verus''. Based on Fischer's brief description, it is possible that the specimen was from a dinocephalian. See also * List of therapsids This list o ...
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Deuterosaurus2DB
''Deuterosaurus'' is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids, one of the non-mammalian synapsids dominating the land during the late Paleozoic. Anatomy Skulls of ''Deuterosaurus'' are well known from several finds. They were around 80 cm long (2 ft 6 in) with a long snout and conical teeth. Like all anteosaurs, the skull possessed long, dagger-like canine teeth. The skull was rather short for an anteosaur, with a broad cheek region, indicating a very strong bite. The eyes were partly slanted forward, giving it at least partial stereo vision. The pineal eye, though small, had a well formed opening right atop the brain case. ''Deuterosaurus'' was a very large animal, the size of a modern grizzly bear. T. H. Huxley mistakenly considered it to be a dinosaur.Huxley, T.H. (1869)"Triassic Dinosauria"''Nature'' 1: 23-24. With its long tail, it had an adult length of 5–6 meters (15–18 ft) and weighted around half a ton. Judging from related therapsids, the sho ...
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research. They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201.3 mya; their dominance continued throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The fossil record shows that birds are feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier theropods during the Late Jurassic epoch, and are the only dinosaur lineage known to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event approximately 66 mya. Dinosaurs can therefore be divided into avian dinosaurs—birds—and the extinct non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds. Dinosaurs are varied from taxonomic, morphological and ecological standpoints. Birds, at over 10,700 living species, are among ...
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19xx In Paleontology
The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM). The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, technological advances, and the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts. These reshaped the political and social structure of the globe. The 20th century saw a massive transformation of humanity's relationship with the natural world. Global population, sea level rise, and ecological collapses increased while competition for land and dwindling resources accelerated deforestation, water depletion, and the mass extinction of many of the world's species and decline in the population of others. Global heating increased the risk of extreme weather conditions. Additional themes include intergovernmental organizations and cultural homogenization through developments in eme ...
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Deuterosaurus
''Deuterosaurus'' is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids, one of the non-mammalian synapsids dominating the land during the late Paleozoic. Anatomy Skulls of ''Deuterosaurus'' are well known from several finds. They were around 80 cm long (2 ft 6 in) with a long snout and conical teeth. Like all anteosaurs, the skull possessed long, dagger-like canine teeth. The skull was rather short for an anteosaur, with a broad cheek region, indicating a very strong bite. The eyes were partly slanted forward, giving it at least partial stereo vision. The pineal eye, though small, had a well formed opening right atop the brain case. ''Deuterosaurus'' was a very large animal, the size of a modern grizzly bear. T. H. Huxley mistakenly considered it to be a dinosaur.Huxley, T.H. (1869)"Triassic Dinosauria"''Nature'' 1: 23-24. With its long tail, it had an adult length of 5–6 meters (15–18 ft) and weighted around half a ton. Judging from related therapsids, the short ...
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Dorygnathus
''Dorygnathus'' ("spear jaw") was a genus of Rhamphorhynchidae, rhamphorhynchid pterosaur that lived in Europe during the Early Jurassic period, when shallow seas flooded much of the continent. It had a short () wingspan, and a relatively small triangular sternum, which is where its flight muscles attached. Its skull was long and its eye sockets were the largest Fenestra (anatomy), opening therein. Large curved fangs that "intermeshed" when the jaws closed featured prominently at the front of the snout while smaller, straighter teeth lined the back. Having two or more morphs of teeth, a condition called heterodonty, is rare in modern reptiles but more common in basal ("primitive") pterosaurs. The heterodont dentition in ''Dorygnathus'' is consistent with a piscivore, piscivorous (fish-eating) diet. The fifth digit on the hindlimbs of ''Dorygnathus'' was unusually long and oriented to the side. Its function is not certain, but the toe may have supported a membrane like those support ...
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Goniosaurus
''Goniosaurus'' is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) of the Nekum Chalk, in Netherlands. The only species so far described, ''G. binskhorsti'' is represented only by an isolated, compressed and slender tooth described by Hermman Meyer and a referred tooth and a cervical vertebra that shows that was an elasmosaurid, as many others Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs from Europe.Bardet, Nathalie, and Pascal Godefroit''Plesiosaurus houzeaui'' Dollo, 1909 from the Upper Campanian of Ciply (Belgium) and a review of the Upper Cretaceous plesiosaurs from Europe ''Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre'' 65 (1995): 179-186. See also * List of plesiosaur genera * Timeline of plesiosaur research This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions, and cultural portrayals of plesiosaurs, an order of ...
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Hermann Loew
Friedrich Hermann Loew (19 July 1807 – 21 April 1879) was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States. Biography Early years Hermann Loew was born in Weissenfels, Saxony a short distance south of Halle (Germany). The Loew family, though not wealthy, was well-placed. Loew's father was a functionary for the Department of Justice of the Duchy of Saxony who later became a ''Geheimer Regierungsrath'' of Prussia. Between 1817 and 1829 Loew attended first the Convent school of Rossleben, then the University of Halle-Wittenberg, graduating in mathematics, philology and natural history. Teacher, tutor and husband Recognizing his abilities as a mathematician, the university, on his graduation, appointed him as a lecturer in the same subjects. In 1830 he went to Berlin and gave lessons in differen ...
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