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Acanthodii
Acanthodii or acanthodians (sometimes called spiny sharks) is a paraphyletic class of extinct teleostome fish, sharing features with both bony fish and cartilaginous fish.
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Afromyrma
Afromyrma is an extinct genus of ant in the formicid subfamily Myrmicinae, and is currently unplaced in any of the tribes of that subfamily.
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Afropone
Afropone is an extinct genus of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae, and is currently unplaced in any of the tribes of that subfamily.
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Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Albicoccus
Albicoccus is an extinct genus of scale insect in the extinct monotypic family Albicoccidae, containing a single species, Albicoccus dimai.
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Allenby Formation
The Allenby formation is a sedimentary rock formation deposited during the early to early Middle Eocene.
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Altmuehlopterus
Altmuehlopterus (meaning "Altmühl River wing") is a genus of pterosaur, belonging to the Pterodactyloidea.
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Amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.
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Anaspida
Anaspida ("without shield") is an extinct group of primitive jawless vertebrates that lived primarily during the Silurian period, and became extinct soon after the start of the Devonian.
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Anseranatidae
Anseranatidae, the magpie-geese, is a biological family of waterbirds.
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Appianoporites
Appianoporites is an extinct monotypic genus of fungus in the Agaricomycetes family Hymenochaetaceae.
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Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Archosauromorpha
Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade (or infraclass) of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the middle Permian and became more common during the Triassic.
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Atrociraptor
Atrociraptor (meaning "savage robber") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) of Alberta, Canada.
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Avgodectes
Avgodectes is an invalid pterosaur genus.
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Bajo de la Carpa Formation
The Bajo de la Carpa Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Patagonia, in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, Argentina.
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Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite.
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Barlow Inlet Formation
The Barlow Inlet Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut.
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Barn-owl
Barn owls (family Tytonidae) are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls or typical owls, Strigidae.
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Barremian
The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago) and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch (or Lower Cretaceous series). It is preceded by the Hauterivian and followed by the Aptian stage.See Gradstein et al. (2004) or the online geowhen database (link below).
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Bavaripsitta
Bavaripsitta ballmanni is a prehistoric parrot described from a fossil tarsometatarsus found in middle Miocene freshwater deposits in the Nördlinger Ries of western Bavaria in Southern Germany.
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Berothidae
The Berothidae are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.
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Birkeniiformes
Birkeniiformes (Birkeniida or Birkeniids) is an extinct order of jawless fish belonging to the class Anaspida.
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Bissektipelta
Bissektipelta (Averianov, 2002) is an ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan.
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Bissekty Formation
The Bissekty Formation (sometimes referred to as Bissekt) is situated in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan, and dates from the late Cretaceous Period.
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Bonatitan
Bonatitan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.
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Bonitasaura
Bonitasaura is a titanosaurian dinosaur hailing from uppermost layers of the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Neuquen Group, located in Río Negro Province, Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina.
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Borealosaurus
Borealosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of northern China.
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Burmacoccus
Burmacoccus is an extinct genus of scale insect in the extinct monotypic family Burmacoccidae, containing a single species, Burmacoccus danyi.
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Cacibupteryx
Cacibupteryx is a genus of rhamphorhynchid "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the middle-late Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, Cuba.
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Candeleros Formation
The Candeleros Formation (formerly known as the Candeleros Member of the "Rio Limay Formation") is a geologic formation that outcrops in Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza provinces of Argentina.
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Caturrita Formation
The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous series.
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Ceratosauria
Ceratosaurs are members of a group of theropod dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestry with Ceratosaurus than with birds.
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Chattian
The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.
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Christian Sidor
Christian A. Sidor is an American biologist and paleontologist, Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, as well as curator of vertebrate paleontology and associate director for research and collections at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
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Climatiiformes
The Climatiiformes is an order of extinct fish belonging to the class Acanthodii.
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Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.
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Corvidae
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.
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Crosbysaurus
Crosbysaurus is a genus of extinct archosauromorph that lived in the Late Triassic of Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, and Utah.
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Darren Naish
Darren Naish is a British vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.
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Diapsid
Diapsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes (temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.
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Didier Berthet
Didier Berthet (born on June 11, 1962, in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Saint-Dié since June 2016.
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Dilong paradoxus
Dilong (帝龍, which means 'emperor dragon') is a genus of basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur.
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Dong Zhiming
Dong Zhiming (Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng; born January 1937), of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist.
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Drain fly
Drain flies, sink flies, filter flies, or sewer gnats (Psychodidae) are small true flies (Diptera) with short, hairy bodies and wings giving them a "furry" moth-like appearance, hence one of their common names, moth flies.
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Dsungaripteridae
Dsungaripteridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Edmontonian
The Edmontonian was a North American faunal epoch occurring during the Late Cretaceous.
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Ekrixinatosaurus
Ekrixinatosaurus ('explosion-born reptile') is a genus of abelisaurid theropod which lived approximately 100 to 97 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.
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Electrostephanus
Electrostephanus is an extinct genus of crown wasp in the hymenopteran family Stephanidae, and is the only genus placed in the subfamily Electrostephaninae.
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Enantiornithes
Enantiornithes is a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era.
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Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
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Eurotrochilus
Eurotrochilus is a genus of extinct members of the stem group Trochilidae and are the closest relatives of the crown group Trochildae, which includes modern hummingbirds.
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Evgeny Kurochkin
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kurochkin (Евгений Николаевич Курочкин; 12 July 1940 - 13 December 2011) was a Russian paleornithologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Famennian
The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian epoch.
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Frasnian
The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian period.
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Garcorops jadis
Garcorops jadis is a possibly extinct species of Wall crab spider, family Selenopidae, and at present, it is one of four known species in the genus Garcorops.
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Gerald Mayr
Gerald Mayr is a German palaeontologist who is Curator of Ornithology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse.
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Germanodactylidae
Germanodactylidae is a controversial group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.
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Gerontoformica
Gerontoformica is an extinct genus of stem-group ants.
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Graciliraptor
Graciliraptor (meaning "graceful thief") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Horseshoe Canyon Formation
The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta.
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Huaxiagnathus
Huaxiagnathus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China.
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.
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Iaceornis
Iaceornis is a prehistoric marine bird genus endemic to North America during the Late Cretaceous living about 83.5 mya.
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Ianthodon
IanthodonKissel, R. A. & Reisz, R. R. Synapsid fauna of the Upper Pennsylvanian Rock Lake Shale near Garnett, Kansas and the diversity pattern of early amniotes.
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Ischnacanthiformes
Ischanacanthiformes is an order of Acanthodii or spiny sharks found in Canada, Ukraine and United Kingdom.
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Jagua Formation
The Jagua Formation is a Late Jurassic (middle to late Oxfordian) geologic formation in Pinar del Río Province, western Cuba.
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Jakubsonia
Jakubsonia is an extinct genus of early tetrapod from the Late Devonian of Russia.
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Jeffrey A. Wilson
Jeffrey A. Wilson also known as "JAW" is a professor of geological sciences and assistant curator at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan.
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Jiufotang Formation
The Jiufotang Formation (Chinese: 九佛堂组, pinyin: jiǔfótáng zǔ) is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms (see Jehol Biota).
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Kerberosaurus
Kerberosaurus (meaning "Kerberos lizard") was a genus of saurolophine duckbill dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Tsagayan Formation of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia (dated to 66 million years ago).
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Kimmeridgian
In the geologic timescale, the Kimmeridgian is an age or stage in the Late or Upper Jurassic epoch or series.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.
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Lianmuqin Formation
The Lianmuqin Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation composed of "interbedded red green and yellow variegated mudstones and siltstones sic".
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Limaysaurus
Limaysaurus is a herbivorous rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northwestern Patagonia.
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Liquidambar
Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (sweet gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species.
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Liquidambar changii
Liquidambar changii is an extinct species of sweetgum in the Altingiaceae genus Liquidambar.
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Lobalopex
Lobalopex is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids belonging to the family Burnetiidae.
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Lonchognathosaurus
Lonchognathosaurus was a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Xinjiang, China.
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Longirostravis
Longirostravis is a genus of enantiornithean birds which existed during the early Cretaceous period (around 125 million years ago) and is known from fossils found in the middle or upper Yixian Formation in Yixian County, People's Republic of China.
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Loon
The loons (North America) or divers (Great Britain/Ireland) are a group of aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia.
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Lophosteus
Lophosteus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
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Luis M. Chiappe
Luis María Chiappe is an Argentine paleontologist born in Buenos Aires who is best known for his discovery of the first sauropod nesting sites in the badlands of Patagonia in 1997.
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Lutetian
The Lutetian is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the Eocene.
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Mark Norell
Mark A. Norell (born July 26, 1957) is an American paleontologist and molecular geneticist, acknowledged as one of the most important living vertebrate paleontologists.
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Marmyan
Marmyan is an extinct genus of scale insect, containing a single species, Marmyan barbarae and unplaced in any coccid family.
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Mei long
Mei (from Chinese 寐 mèi to sleep soundly) is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists in Liaoning, China in 2004.
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Messel pit
The Messel Pit (Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Michael S. Engel
Michael S. Engel, FLS (born September 24, 1971) is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification.
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Microberotha
Microberotha is an extinct monotypic genus of "beaded lacewing" in the family Berothidae known from a fossil found in North America.
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Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.
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Minnesota State Highway 6
Minnesota State Highway 6 (MN 6) is a highway in east-central and north-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 18 in Bay Lake Township near Garrison and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 71 and County Road 30 in Big Falls.
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Minnesota's 10th congressional district
Minnesota's 10th congressional district existed from 1915 to 1933.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mirischia
Mirischia is a small (two meter-long) extinct genus of compsognathid theropod dinosaur from the Albian stage (Early Cretaceous period) of Brazil.
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Morrison Formation
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America.
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Myrmicinae
Myrmicinae is a subfamily of ants, with about 140 extant genera; their distribution is cosmopolitan.
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Nemegtomaia
Nemegtomaia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from what is now Mongolia that lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70million years ago.
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Neviusia
Neviusia, the snow-wreaths, is a genus of ornamental plants, which are native to the United States, containing two extant species and one extinct species known from leaf fossils.
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Neviusia dunthornei
Neviusia dunthornei is an extinct species of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae.
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New World vulture
The New World vulture or condor family Cathartidae contains seven species in five genera, all but one of which are monotypic.
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Niobrara Formation
The Niobrara Formation, also called the Niobrara Chalk, is a geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
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Nostolepis
Nostolepis is an extinct genus of acanthodian fish which lived in the Late Silurian (Pridoli) to Middle Devonian (Lochkovian).
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
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Ornithurae
Ornithurae (meaning "bird tails" in Greek) is a natural group which includes the common ancestor of Ichthyornis, Hesperornis, and all modern birds as well as all other descendants of that common ancestor.
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Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.
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Otogosaurus
Otogosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur.
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Oxfordian (stage)
The Oxfordian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the earliest age of the Late Jurassic epoch, or the lowest stage of the Upper Jurassic series.
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Paleoleishmania
Paleoleishmania is an extinct genus of kinetoplastids, a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa and at present it's placed in kinetoplastid family Trypanosomatidae.
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Pari Aike Formation
The Pari Aike Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation of Cenomanian (formerly believed to be Maastrichtian) age in southern Patagonia, Argentina.
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Paul Sereno
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence" who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.
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Peter Dodson
Peter Dodson (born August 20, 1946) is an American paleontologist who has published many papers and written and collaborated on books about dinosaurs.
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Pisco Formation
The Pisco Formation is a geologic formation located in Peru, on the southern coastal desert of Ica and Arequipa.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Plesiopterys
Plesiopterys is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Ponerinae
Ponerinae is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant.
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Prenoceratops
Prenoceratops, (meaning 'bent or prone-horned face' and derived from Greek prene-/πρηνη- meaning 'bent forwards' or 'prone', cerat-/κερατ- meaning 'horn' and -ops/ωψ meaning 'face') is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period.
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Progalesaurus
Progalesaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian therapsid.
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Protecovasaurus
Protecovasaurus is a genus of archosaurian reptile from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States.
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Psammosteida
Psammmosteida is a taxon of pteraspidid heterostracan agnathans.
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Psittacidae
The family Psittacidae is one of three families of true parrots.
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Pteraspidiformes
Pteraspidiformes is an extinct order of heterostracan agnathan vertebrates known from extensive fossil remains primarily from Early Devonian strata of Europe and North America, and from Upper Silurian Canada.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.
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Pyozia
Pyozia is an extinct genus of basal Middle Permian varanopid synapsids known from Russia.
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Quaternary
Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
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Quatsinoporites
Quatsinoporites is an extinct monotypic genus of agaricomycet fungus in the Agaricomycetes family Hymenochaetaceae.
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Rail (bird)
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds.
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Rewaconodon
Rewaconodon tikiensis is an extinct species of cynodonts which existed in India during the upper Triassic period, the only species in the genus Rewaconodon.
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Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchidae is a group of early "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaurs named after Rhamphorhynchus, that lived in the Late Jurassic.
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Rugops
Rugops (meaning "first wrinkle face") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which inhabited what is now Africa approximately 95 million years ago (Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous).
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Rupelian
The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.
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Sandpiper
Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds.
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Santana Formation
The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together.
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Scale insect
The scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha.
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Septentrioniidae
Septentrioniidae is an extinct family of jawless fish belonging to the order Birkeniiformes.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
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Sinusonasus
Sinusonasus is a genus of dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Period, recovered from the Yixian Formation.
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Solnhofen Limestone
The Solnhofen Plattenkalk, or Solnhofen Limestone, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, including highly detailed imprints of soft bodied organisms such as sea jellies.
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Spinostropheus
Spinostropheus is a genus of small carnivorous ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic period of Niger.
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Stephanidae
The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps placed in the superfamily Stephanoidea, which has at least 345 living species in 11 genera.
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Storrs L. Olson
Storrs Lovejoy Olson (born April 3, 1944) is an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008.
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Sulidae
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies.
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Sunjiawan Formation
The Sunjiawan Formation is a geological formation in Liaoning, China, with strata possibly dating back to the early Late Cretaceous, specifically the Cenomanian and Turonian.
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Suuwassea
Suuwassea (meaning "ancient thunder") is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur found in the Upper Jurassic strata of the Morrison Formation, located in southern Carbon County, Montana, United States.
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Talenkauen
Talenkauen (meaning "small skull" in Aonikenk, referring to the proportionally small skull) is a genus of basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Upper Cretaceous Pari Aike Formation of Lake Viedma, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Tazoudasaurus
Tazoudasaurus is a genus of vulcanodontid sauropod dinosaurs hailing from the Early Jurassic Toundoute overthrust beds located in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco in North Africa.
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Tetrapod
The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.
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Thelodonti
Thelodonti (from Greek: "feeble teeth")Maisey, John G., Craig Chesek, and David Miller.
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Thrush (bird)
The thrushes are a family, Turdidae, of passerine birds with a worldwide distribution.
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Tithonian
In the geological timescale the Tithonian is the latest age of the Late Jurassic epoch or the uppermost stage of the Upper Jurassic series.
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Trevor H. Worthy
Trevor Henry Worthy (born 3 January 1957) is an Australia-based paleozoologist from New Zealand known for his research on moa and other extinct vertebrates.
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Trypanosomatida
Trypanosomatida is a group of kinetoplastid excavates distinguished by having only a single flagellum.
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Turonian
The Turonian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the second age in the Late Cretaceous epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous series.
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Unaysaurus
Unaysaurus is a genus of sauropodomorph herbivore dinosaur.
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Vescornis
Vescornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird.
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Viti Levu
Viti Levu (pronounced) is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji, the site of the nation's capital, Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population.
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Xu Xing (paleontologist)
Xu Xing (born 1969) is a Chinese paleontologist who has named more dinosaurs than any other living paleontologist.
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Yanornis
Yanornis (Chinese: 燕鸟) is an extinct genus of fish-eating Early Cretaceous birds.
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Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period.
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Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.
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Zhou Zhonghe
Zhou Zhonghe (born 19 January 1965 in Jiangdu, Jiangsu province) is a Chinese palaeontologist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_in_paleontology
