1871 in paleontology
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Newly named dinosaurs
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Danubiosaurus |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Bunzel |
Possible subjective synonym of Struthiosaurus Struthiosaurus Struthiosaurus is one of the smallest known and most basal genera of nodosaurid dinosaurs, from the Late Cretaceous period of Austria, Romania and France in Europe. It was protected by body armour... . |
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Zatomus Zatomus Zatomus was a genus of rauisuchian from the Late Triassic. It lived in what is now present-day North Carolina. It is classified as a rauisuchian, a type of large carnivorous thecodontian archosaur, and was once thought to be a dinosaur.-External links:... |
Misidentification. |
Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... |
Dubious genus of non-dinosaurian archosaur. |
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New taxa
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Cryptoclidus Cryptoclidus Cryptoclidus was a genus of plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic period of England.-Discovery:Cryptoclidus is a plesiosaur whose specimens include adult and juvenile skeletons, and remains which have been found in various degrees of preservation in England, Northern France, Russia, and South America... |
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Phillips |
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Rhomaleosaurus Rhomaleosaurus Rhomaleosaurus is an extinct genus of Early Jurassic rhomaleosaurid pliosauroid known from Northamptonshire and from Yorkshire of the United Kingdom. It was first named by Harry Seeley in 1874 and the type species is Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni... |
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Seeley |
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New taxa
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Diopecephalus |
Jr. synonym. |
Seeley |
Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus. |
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Ornithostoma Ornithostoma Ornithostoma is a genus created in 1871 by H. Govier Seeley for a number of skeletal fragments, mostly of jaws, of toothless pterosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of England, today often assigned to the Pteranodontidae. One of these fragments had in 1859 been described by... |
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Seeley |
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