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Dinosaurs Plesiosaurs New taxa Synapsids Non-mammalian {, class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%" , - ! Name ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! width="33%" class="unsortable" , Notes ! class="unsortable", Images , - , '' Aulacocephalodon'' , Valid , Seeley , , , , , rowspan="99", , - , ''Aulacephalodon'' , Valid , Seeley , , , , , - , ''Rhachiocephalus ''Rhachiocephalus'' is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid Therapsida is a major group of eupelycosaurian synapsids that includes mammals, their ancestors and relatives. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their orig ...'' , Valid , Seeley , , , , , - References ...
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Avalonianus
''Avalonianus'' is a highly dubious and possibly invalid genus of archosaur from the Late Triassic of England. It was first described in 1898 by Harry Seeley with the name ''Avalonia'',H. G. Seeley. 1898. On large terrestrial saurians from the Rhaetic Beds of Wedmore Hill, described as ''Avalonia sanfordi'' and '' Picrodon herveyi''. Geological Magazine, decade 4 5:1-6 but that name was preoccupied (Walcott, 1889), so Oskar Kuhn renamed it in 1961, albeit with no epithet (although Seeley added the epithet ''sanfordi'' in 1898). It was thought to be a prosauropod, but later analysis revealed it was actually a chimera, with the original teeth coming from a non-dinosaurian ornithosuchian (or possibly an early theropod Theropoda (; ), whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally c ...), and later-refe ...
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Harry Govier Seeley
Harry Govier Seeley (18 February 1839 – 8 January 1909) was a British paleontologist. Early life Seeley was born in London on 18 February 1839, the second son of Richard Hovill Seeley, a goldsmith, and his second wife Mary Govier. When his father was declared bankrupt, Seeley was sent to live with a family of piano makers. Between the ages of eleven and fourteen, he went to a day school and then spent the next two years learning to make pianos. He also attended lectures at the Royal School of Mines by Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Forbes, and other notable scientists. In 1855, with the support of his uncle, Seeley began to study law but shortly gave it up to pursue a career as an actuary. In the late 1850s, he studied English and mathematics at the Working Men's College and served as a secretary for the college's museum. He also worked in the library of the British Museum, where Samuel Pickworth Woodward encouraged him to study geology. In 1859, Seeley began studies at Sidney S ...
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Clasmodosaurus
''Clasmodosaurus'' (meaning "fragmentary tooth reptile") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Bajo Barreal Formation. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. It is known only from three fossilized teeth, and is therefore a tooth taxon. It is a ''nomen dubium''. The type species, ''Clasmodosaurus spatula'', was described by Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino in 1898. For a long time, these teeth were thought to belong to a theropod. The teeth of ''Clasmodosaurus spatula'' were polygonal in cross section rather than round, an unusual trait also found in the titanosaur '' Bonitasaura salgadoi''. History ''Clasmodosaurus'' was named by Florentino Ameghino in 1898, but remained largely unknown for decades after its discovery. It was originally considered a sauropod, but Friedrich von Huene suggested that it could be a coelurosaur or synonymous with ''Loncosaurus'', which he considered to be a carnosaur Carnosauria is an extinc ...
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Nomen Dubium
In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. Zoology In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a specimen belongs to that group or not. This may happen if the original type series (i. e. holotype, isotype, syntype or paratype) is lost or destroyed. The zoological and botanical codes allow for a new type specimen, or neotype, to be chosen in this case. A name may also be considered a ''nomen dubium'' if its name-bearing type is fragmentary or lacking important diagnostic features (this is often the case for species known only as fossils). To preserve stability of names, the ''International Code of Zoological Nomenclature'' allows a new type specimen, or neotype, to be chosen for a ''nomen dubium'' in this case. 75.5. Replacement of unidentifiable name-bearing type by a neotype. When an author considers that the taxonomic identity of a ...
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Loncosaurus
''Loncosaurus'' (meaning uncertain; either Araucanian "chief" or Greek "lance" "lizard"Norman, D.B., and Weishampel, D.B. 1990. Iguanodontidae and related ornithopods. In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). ''The Dinosauria''. University of California Press:Berkeley, 510-533. Norman, D.B. 2004. Basal Iguanodontia. In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). ''The Dinosauria'' (second edition). University of California Press:Berkeley, 413-437. George Olshevsky'Dinosaur Genera List/ref> Ameghino, F. 1899. Nota preliminar sobre el ''Loncosaurus argentinus'', un representante de la familia Megalosauridae de la República Argentina. ''Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina'' 49:61-62. panish/ref>Coria, R.A., and Salgado, L. 1996. ''Loncosaurus argentinus'' Ameghino, 1899 (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda): a revised description with comments on its phylogenetic relationships. ''Ameghiniana'' 33(4):373-376.Glut, D.F. (1997). ''Dinosaurs: The Encyclo ...
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Picrodon
''Picrodon'' is the name given to a genus of archosaur, possibly a sauropodomorph dinosaur, from the Rhaetian of England which was possibly synonymous with the dubious archosaur ''Avalonianus''. The type, and only species, ''P. herveyi'', was named in 1898.H. G. Seeley. 1898. On large terrestrial saurians from the Rhaetic Beds of Wedmore Hill, described as '' Avalonia sanfordi'' and ''Picrodon herveyi''. Geological Magazine, decade 4 5:1-6 Discovery and naming In 1894, W. A. Sanford described the fossil remains of what he considered to be two large reptiles discovered near Westbury-on-Severn, Glastonbury (Westbury Formation) by Eev. Sydenham H. A. Hervey and Sanford himself.''Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society'' - vol. xl, 1894, p. 234 Harry Govier Seeley described the fossils and named two genera: ''Avalonia'' (preoccupied; now ''Avalonianus'') and ''Picrodon''; both are based solely on teeth. Only a single tooth, holotype BMNH R2875, belonging to ''P. herveyi ...
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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 ...
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Megalneusaurus
''Megalneusaurus'' is an extinct genus of large pliosaur that lived in the Sundance Sea during the Kimmeridgian, ~156-152 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic. It was named by paleontologist W. C. Knight in 1895. The genus and type species was based upon ribs, vertebrae, a fore-paddle and fragments of the pectoral girdle discovered in the Sundance Formation in Wyoming, USA in 1895.Knight WC. 1895 A new Jurassic plesiosaur from Wyoming. ''Science'' 2: 449. The species named as ''Megalneusaurus rex'' (meaning "great swimming lizard king") in 1898.Knight WC. 1898. Some new Jurassic vertebrates from Wyoming. ''American Journal of Science'' 4: 378-381. However some of this material has since been lost, although new material has been discovered from the same site.Wahl WR, Ross M, Massare JA. 2007. Rediscovery of Wilbur Knight’s ''Megalneusaurus rex'' site: new material from an old pit. ''Paludicola'' 6 (2): 94-104. Based upon the bones very large size, it appears to have grown to ...
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Aulacocephalodon
''Aulacephalodon'' is an extinct genus of medium-sized dicynodonts, or non-mammalian synapsids, that lived during Permian period, about 299-252 million years ago. Individuals of ''Aulacephalodon'' are commonly found in the Lower Beaufort Group of the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa and Zambia. Rising to dominance during the Late Permian, ''Aulacephalodon'' were the dominant terrestrial vertebrate herbivores until they became extinct during the Triassic. No living relatives of ''Aulacephalodon'' exist today. Two species have been named, the type species, ''A. bainii,'' and a second species, ''A. peavoti''. However, debate exists among paleontologists if ''A. peavoti'' is a true member of the genus ''Aulacephalodon''. Therefore, a majority of the information known about ''Aulacephalodon'' is in reference to discoveries about ''A. bainii''. The name ''Aulacephalodon'' combines the Greek words aulak- (aulax), meaning "a furrow", kephale, meaning "head," and odon, meaning tooth. Toge ...
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Aulacephalodon
''Aulacephalodon'' is an extinct genus of medium-sized dicynodonts, or non-mammalian synapsids, that lived during Permian period, about 299-252 million years ago. Individuals of ''Aulacephalodon'' are commonly found in the Lower Beaufort Group of the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa and Zambia. Rising to dominance during the Late Permian, ''Aulacephalodon'' were the dominant terrestrial vertebrate herbivores until they became extinct during the Triassic. No living relatives of ''Aulacephalodon'' exist today. Two species have been named, the type species, ''A. bainii,'' and a second species, ''A. peavoti''. However, debate exists among paleontologists if ''A. peavoti'' is a true member of the genus ''Aulacephalodon''. Therefore, a majority of the information known about ''Aulacephalodon'' is in reference to discoveries about ''A. bainii''. The name ''Aulacephalodon'' combines the Greek words aulak- (aulax), meaning "a furrow", kephale, meaning "head," and odon, meaning tooth. Toge ...
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Rhachiocephalus
''Rhachiocephalus'' is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid Therapsida is a major group of eupelycosaurian synapsids that includes mammals, their ancestors and relatives. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids, including limbs that were oriented more .... References The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Dicynodonts Lopingian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1898 Taxa named by Harry Seeley Lopingian genus first appearances Lopingian genus extinctions Anomodont genera {{anomodont-stub ...
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