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2007 in paleontology

Index 2007 in paleontology

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259 relations: Achillesaurus, Adamanasuchus, Adamantina Formation, Aetosaur, Africanacetus, Albertaceratops, Albian, Alderfly, Allenby Formation, Alvarezsauridae, Amargatitanis, Amber, Anatidae, Ankylosauridae, Anthony J. Martin, Apterostigma electropilosum, Apterostigma eowilsoni, Aptian, Aralazhdarcho, Arganasuchus, Ascomycota, Asylosaurus, Australodocus, Azhdarchidae, Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Baltic amber, Baptornis, Barinasuchus, Barremian, Berberosaurus, Berriasian, Blackleaf Formation, Bostobe Svita, Brodavis, Burdigalian, Buttonquail, Campanian, Candeleros Formation, Cariamiformes, Cedar Mountain Formation, Cedrorestes, Cenomanian, Centrosaurinae, Cerasinops, Ceratopsia, Ceratosauria, Charadriidae, Charassognathus, Chattian, Chinle Formation, ..., Christian Sidor, Coelophysoidea, Compsognathidae, Coniacian, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Crocodyliformes, Crocodylus, Ctenochasmatoidea, Cyril Walker (palaeontologist), David B. Norman, David Steadman, Deccanodon, Dicromantispa electromexicana, Dicromantispa moronei, Dinosauromorpha, Diplodocid, Diving petrel, Djadochta Formation, Dollosuchoides, Dominican amber, Dongbeititan, Dromaeosauridae, Dromomeron, Duan Ye, Dunstanetta, Early Cretaceous, Early Miocene, Elsornis, Emberizidae, Enantiornithes, Eocene, Eocursor, Eophyllium, Eopolycotylus, Eotriceratops, Fissuravis, Foraminifera, Futalognkosaurus, Gareth J. Dyke, Gegepterus, Gerald Mayr, Gigantoraptor, Glisachaemus, Grès à Reptiles, Ground hornbill, Hadrosaurid, Haifanggou Formation, Hangingfly, Hans-Dieter Sues, Hühteeg Svita, Heckler & Koch MP5, Hesperornithes, Hettangian, Holocene, Honda Group, Colombia, Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Icadyptes, Iren Dabasu Formation, Ithonidae, Jack Horner (paleontologist), James E. Martin, Jiangjunosaurus, Jiufotang Formation, Junggaroperadectes, Katumbia, Kelenken, Klondike Mountain Formation, La Amarga Formation, Lagerpetidae, Lamplughsaura, Langstonia, Lapwing, Late Cretaceous, Late Jurassic, Late Triassic, Lecho Formation, Lithornithidae, Lophorhinus, Lophostropheus, Luanchuanraptor, Luis M. Chiappe, Lungfish, Maastrichtian, Mahakala omnogovae, Mantispidae, Manuherikia (bird), Margaretbarromyces, Mark Norell, Marsupial, Martinavis, Massospondylidae, Matanas, McRae Formation, Mesozoic, Messel pit, Mexican amber, Middle Jurassic, Miocene, Miotadorna, Mongolbittacus, Montealtosuchus, Moon-Airel Formation, Muyelensaurus, Myrmicinae, Nakalipithecus, Nanningosaurus, Neuquensuchus, Nodosauridae, Nopcsaspondylus, Norian, Nuku Hiva, Nuku Hiva rail, Oceanosuchus, Oldman Formation, Oligocene, Ornithischia, Ornithopod, Orontium, Orontium mackii, Orontium wolfei, Oryctodromeus, Oviraptorosauria, Owl, Oxfordian (stage), Pahasapasaurus, Palaeoagaracites, Palaeognathae, Paleocene, Palmula, Palmulasaurus, Pantydraco, Paraprotopteryx, Parrot, Passerine, Peirosauridae, Pelecanoides miokuaka, Penguin, Perudyptes, Peter Galton, Petrified Forest Formation, Pholidosauridae, Phorusrhacidae, Phylliidae, Pisco Formation, Pleistocene, Pliensbachian, Pliocene, Portezuelo Formation, Pradhania, Principiala, Protosialis casca, Qiupa Formation, Rail (bird), Rauisuchia, Rebbachisauridae, Rhaetian, Rinchen Barsbold, Rupelian, Sankar Chatterjee, Santa Lucía Formation, Santonian, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Sauroposeidon, Schwenckfeldina archoica, Sciaridae, Sebecidae, Sebecus, Shanag, Shantungosaurus, Shigeru Suzuki, Shishugou Formation, Sinemurian, Sinocalliopteryx, Sophiornithidae, Southeast Asia, Southern lapwing, Stegosauria, Suzhousaurus, Synonym, Tahuata, Tahuata rail, Tapejaridae, Therizinosaur, Titanosaur, Toarcian, Tomistominae, Trevor H. Worthy, Trochodendron, Trochodendron drachukii, Tupandactylus, Turolian, Twin Mountains Formation, Two Medicine Formation, Ua Huka, Ua Huka rail, Upper Dharmaram Formation, Urbacodon, Vastanavis, Voay, Vulpes riffautae, Wesley Wehr, Xu Xing (paleontologist), Yixian Formation, Ypresian, Zhejiangosaurus, Zhongyuansaurus, Zulmasuchus. Expand index (209 more) »

Achillesaurus

Achillesaurus is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Santonian-age Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Rio Negro, Argentina.

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Adamanasuchus

Adamanasuchus is an extinct genus of aetosaur.

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Adamantina Formation

The Adamantina Formation is a geological formation in the Bauru Basin of western São Paulo state, in southeastern Brazil.

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Aetosaur

Aetosaurs (aetosaur; order name Aetosauria; from Greek, ἀετός (aetos, "eagle") and σαυρος (sauros, "lizard")) are an extinct order of heavily armoured, medium- to large-sized Late Triassic herbivorous archosaurs.

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Africanacetus

Africanacetus is an extinct genus of ziphiid cetacean known from skulls found on seafloor sediments of middle Miocene to Early Pliocene age off the coasts of South Africa and Brazil.

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Albertaceratops

Albertaceratops (meaning "Alberta horned face") was a genus of centrosaurine horned dinosaur from the middle Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada.

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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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Alderfly

Alderflies are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae.

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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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Alvarezsauridae

Alvarezsauridae is a group of small, long-legged dinosaurs.

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Amargatitanis

Amargatitanis (meaning "Amarga giant") is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur (a type of large, long-necked quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur) from the Barremian-age (Lower Cretaceous) La Amarga Formation of Neuquén, Argentina.

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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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Anatidae

The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.

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Ankylosauridae

Ankylosauridae are a family of the armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and sister group to Nodosauridae.

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Anthony J. Martin

Anthony J. Martin is a paleontologist who has taught at Emory University since the early 1990s.

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Apterostigma electropilosum

Apterostigma electropilosum is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.

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Apterostigma eowilsoni

Apterostigma eowilsoni is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.

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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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Aralazhdarcho

Aralazhdarcho is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur from the Santonian-early Campanian Late Cretaceous Bostobe Svita of Kazakhstan.

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Arganasuchus

Arganasuchus is a genus of rauisuchid archosaur.

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Ascomycota

Ascomycota is a division or phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, form the subkingdom Dikarya.

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Asylosaurus

Asylosaurus (meaning "unharmed or sanctuary lizard") is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of England.

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Australodocus

Australodocus (meaning "southern beam" from the Latin australis "southern" and the Greek dokos/δοκоς "beam") is a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago in what was then German East Africa (now Tanzania).

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Azhdarchidae

Azhdarchidae (from Persian word azhdar (اژدر), a dragon-like creature in Persian mythology) is a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous Period, though an isolated vertebra apparently from an azhdarchid is known from the early Cretaceous as well (late Berriasian age, about 140 million years ago).

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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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Baptornis

Baptornis ("diving bird") is a genus of flightless aquatic birds from the Late Cretaceous, some 87-80 million years ago (roughly mid-Coniacian to mid-Campanian faunal stages).

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Barinasuchus

Barinasuchus (meaning "Barinas crocodile," in reference to where the type material was found) is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian.

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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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Berberosaurus

Berberosaurus (meaning "Berber lizard", in reference to the Berbers of Morocco) is a genus of neotheropod dinosaur, possibly a ceratosaur, from the Pliensbachian-Toarcian-age Lower Jurassic Toundoute Continental Series found in the High Atlas of Toundoute, Ouarzazate, Morocco.

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Berriasian

In the geological timescale, the Berriasian is an age or stage of the Early Cretaceous.

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Blackleaf Formation

The Blackleaf Formation is a geologic formation in Montana.

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Bostobe Svita

The Bostobe Svita is a geological formation in Kazakhastan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.

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Brodavis

Brodavis is a genus of freshwater hesperornithiform birds known from the Late Cretaceous (possibly Campanian and Maastrichtian stage) of North America and Asia.

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Burdigalian

The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene.

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Buttonquail

Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae.

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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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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Cariamiformes

Cariamiformes (or Cariamae) is an order of primarily flightless birds that has existed for over 60 million years.

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Cedar Mountain Formation

The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to a distinctive sedimentary geologic formation in eastern Utah.

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Cedrorestes

Cedrorestes is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah.

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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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Centrosaurinae

Centrosaurinae (Greek: pointed lizards) is a subfamily of ceratopsid dinosaurs, a group of large quadrupedal ornithiscians.

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Cerasinops

Cerasinops (meaning 'cherry face') was a small ceratopsian dinosaur.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces", Κερατόψια) is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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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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Charadriidae

The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.

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Charassognathus

Charassognathus (meaning 'notched jaw') is an extinct genus of Late Permian cynodonts.

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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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Chinle Formation

The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geologic formation of fluvial, lacustrine, and palustrine to eolian deposits spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and western Colorado.

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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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Coelophysoidea

Coelophysoids were common dinosaurs of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.

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Compsognathidae

Compsognathidae is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Coniacian

The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale.

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Crato Formation

The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Crocodyliformes

Crocodyliformes is a clade of crurotarsan archosaurs, the group often traditionally referred to as "crocodilians".

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Crocodylus

Crocodylus is one of three genera from the subfamily Crocodylinae of the family Crocodylidae.

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Ctenochasmatoidea

Ctenochasmatoidea is a group of early pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

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Cyril Walker (palaeontologist)

Cyril Alexander Walker (8 February 1939 – 6 May 2009) was a British palaeontologist, curator of fossil birds in the Natural History Museum.

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David B. Norman

David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in the United Kingdom) is a British paleontologist, currently the main curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University.

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David Steadman

David William Steadman is the curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

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Deccanodon

Deccanodon is an extinct genus of Dromatheriid cynodonts which existed in India during the Late Triassic.

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Dicromantispa electromexicana

Dicromantispa electromexicana is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in North America.

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Dicromantispa moronei

Dicromantispa moronei is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in the Caribbean.

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Dinosauromorpha

Dinosauromorpha is a clade of archosaurs that includes the clade Dinosauria (dinosaurs), and other closely related animals.

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Diplodocid

Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae ("double beams"), are a group of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Diving petrel

The diving petrels are seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.

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Djadochta Formation

The Djadochta Formation (sometimes transcribed Djadokhta) is a geological formation situated in central Asia (Gobi Desert), dating from the Late Cretaceous Period.

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Dollosuchoides

Dollosuchoides is an extinct genus of crocodilian.

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Dominican amber

Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic.

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Dongbeititan

Dongbeititan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, China.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered theropod dinosaurs.

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Dromomeron

Dromomeron (meaning "running femur") is a genus of lagerpetonid dinosauromorph archosaur that lived around 220 to 211.9 ± 0.7 million years ago.

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Duan Ye

Duan Ye (died 401) was the first king of Northern Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms period in Chinese history.

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Dunstanetta

Dunstanetta johnstoneorum or Lockhart's Duck is a genus and species of extinct duck from the Miocene of New Zealand.

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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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Early Miocene

The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages.

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Elsornis

Elsornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird.

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Emberizidae

Emberizidae is a family of seed-eating passerine birds with distinctively finch-like bills.

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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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Eocursor

Eocursor (meaning "dawn runner") was a primitive genus of dinosaur.

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Eophyllium

Eophyllium is an extinct monotypic genus of the Phasmatodea, a type of insect ancestral to the modern Phylliidae.

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Eopolycotylus

Eopolycotylus is an extinct genus of Polycotylid plesiosaur known from the Cenomanian-age Tropic Shale of Utah.

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Eotriceratops

Eotriceratops (meaning "dawn three-horned face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived in the area of North America during the late Cretaceous period.

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Fissuravis

Fissuravis ("fissure bird") is a genus of extinct bird from the Paleocene of Germany.

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Foraminifera

Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.

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Futalognkosaurus

Futalognkosaurus (meaning "giant chief lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur.

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Gareth J. Dyke

Gareth John Dyke is a palaeontologist whose work is concerned with the evolutionary history of birds and their dinosaurian relatives.

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Gegepterus

Gegepterus was a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.

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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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Gigantoraptor

Gigantoraptor is a genus of giant oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur.

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Glisachaemus

Glisachaemus is an extinct monotypic genus of planthopper in the Cixiidae subfamily Cixiinae and at present, it contains the single species Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni.

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Grès à Reptiles

Grès à Reptiles is a French geologic formation in the ''département'' of Var preserving the remains of several types of dinosaurs and other extinct organisms.

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Ground hornbill

The ground hornbills (Bucorvidae) are a family of the order Bucerotiformes, with a single genus Bucorvus and two extant species (though possibly including another genus with six extant species).

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Hadrosaurid

Hadrosaurids (ἁδρός, hadrós, "stout, thick"), or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Haifanggou Formation

The Haifanggou Formation (also known as the Jiulongshan Formation) is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.

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Hangingfly

Bittacidae is a family of scorpionflies commonly called hangingflies or hanging scorpionflies.

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Hans-Dieter Sues

Hans-Dieter Sues is a German-born paleontologist who is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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Hühteeg Svita

The Hühteeg Svita (Хөхтээг формаци, Khökhteeg Formatsi) is a geological formation in Mongolia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous.

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Heckler & Koch MP5

The Heckler & Koch MP5 (from Maschinenpistole 5, meaning Submachine gun 5) is a 9mm submachine gun, developed in the 1960s by a team of engineers from the German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch GmbH (H&K) of Oberndorf am Neckar.

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Hesperornithes

Hesperornithes is an extinct and highly specialized group of aquatic avialans closely related to the ancestors of modern birds.

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Hettangian

The Hettangian is the earliest age or lowest stage of the Jurassic period of the geologic timescale.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Honda Group, Colombia

The Honda Group (Grupo Honda, Tsh, Ngh) is a geological group of the Upper and Middle Magdalena Basin and the adjacent Central and Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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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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Icadyptes

Icadyptes is an extinct genus of giant penguins from the Late Eocene tropics of South America.

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Iren Dabasu Formation

The Iren Dabasu Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in the Iren Nor region of Inner Mongolia.

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Ithonidae

Ithonidae, commonly called moth lacewings and giant lacewings, is a small family of winged insects of the insect order Neuroptera.

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Jack Horner (paleontologist)

John R. "Jack" Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for discovering and naming Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

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James E. Martin

James Everett Martin (June 22, 1932 – June 3, 2017) was the President of the University of Arkansas from 1980 to 1984, and of Auburn University from 1984 to 1992.

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Jiangjunosaurus

Jiangjunosaurus is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.

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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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Junggaroperadectes

Junggaroperadectes is an extinct genus of peradectine metatherian which existed in Keziletuogayi Formation, China during the early Oligocene.

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Katumbia

Katumbia is a genus of dicynodont from Late Permian (Changhsingian) of Tanzania.

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Kelenken

Kelenken guillermoi is a species of giant flightless predatory birds of the extinct family Phorusrhacidae, or "terror birds".

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Klondike Mountain Formation

The Klondike Mountain Formation is an early Eocene geological formation located in the northeast central area of Washington State.

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La Amarga Formation

The La Amarga Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentine provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza.

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Lagerpetidae

The Lagerpetidae (originally Lagerpetonidae) is a family of basal dinosauromorphs.

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Lamplughsaura

Lamplughsaura is a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age (Early Jurassic) Dharmaram Formation of India, dating from between 196 and 190 million years ago.

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Langstonia

Langstonia (meaning " of Langston", in honor of paleontologist Wann Langston, Jr.) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorph of the family Sebecidae.

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Lapwing

Vanellinae are any of various crested plovers, family Charadriidae, noted for its slow, irregular wingbeat in flight and a shrill, wailing cry.

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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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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.

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Lecho Formation

The Lecho Formation is a geological formation in Jujuy Province and Salta Province of northwestern Argentina.

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Lithornithidae

Lithornithidae is an extinct, possibly paraphyletic (but see below) clade of early paleognath birds.

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Lophorhinus

Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa.

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Lophostropheus

Lophostropheus (pron.:" LOAF-oh-STRO-fee-us") is an extinct genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 200 million years ago during the boundary between the Late Triassic Period and the Early Jurassic Period, in what is now Normandy, France.

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Luanchuanraptor

Luanchuanraptor (meaning "Luanchuan thief") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China.

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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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Lungfish

Lungfish are freshwater rhipidistian fish belonging to the subclass Dipnoi.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous epoch or Upper Cretaceous series, the Cretaceous period or system, and of the Mesozoic era or erathem.

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Mahakala omnogovae

Mahakala (from Sanskrit, named for Mahakala, one of eight protector deities (dharmapalas) in Tibetan Buddhism) is a genus of basal dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian-age (about 80 million years ago) Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Ömnögovi, Mongolia.

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Mantispidae

Mantispidae, known commonly as mantidflies, mantispids, mantid lacewings or mantis-flies, is a family of small to moderate-sized insects in the order Neuroptera.

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Manuherikia (bird)

Manuherikia is a genus of extinct species of ducks from the Miocene of New Zealand.

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Margaretbarromyces

Margaretbarromyces is an extinct monotypic genus of pleosporale fungus of uncertain family placement.

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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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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Martinavis

Martinavis is a genus of enantiornithine birds which existed in what is now southern France, North America and Salta Province, Argentina during the late Cretaceous period.

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Massospondylidae

Massospondylidae is a family of early massopod dinosaurs that existed in Asia, Africa, South America and AntarcticaHELLERT, Spencer M. "A NEW BASAL SAUROPODOMORPH FROM THE EARLY JURASSIC HANSON FORMATION OF ANTARCTICA." Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,.

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Matanas

Matanas enrighti is an extinct duck from the Miocene of New Zealand.

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McRae Formation

The McRae Formation is a geological formation in New Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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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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Mexican amber

Mexican amber is amber found in Mexico, created during the late Oligocene and Early Miocene epochs of the Cenozoic Era in southwestern North America.

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Middle Jurassic

The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.

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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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Miotadorna

Miotadorna sanctibathansi is an extinct tadornine duck from the Miocene of New Zealand.

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Mongolbittacus

Mongolbittacus is an extinct genus of hangingfly in the family Bittacidae and containing a single species Mongolbittacus daohugoensis.

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Montealtosuchus

Montealtosuchus was an extinct genus of terrestrial crocodyliform.

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Moon-Airel Formation

The Moon-Airel Formation is a geological formation in France.

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Muyelensaurus

Muyelensaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.

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Myrmicinae

Myrmicinae is a subfamily of ants, with about 140 extant genera; their distribution is cosmopolitan.

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Nakalipithecus

Nakalipithecus nakayamai was a prehistoric ape species that lived in modern-day Kenya early in the Late Miocene, 10 million years ago (mya).

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Nanningosaurus

Nanningosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of the Nalong Basin, Guangxi, China.

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Neuquensuchus

Neuquensuchus (meaning "Neuquén crocodile", referring to the city) is an extinct genus of crocodyliform from the Santonian-age Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Neuquén Province, Argentina.

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Nodosauridae

Nodosauridae is a family of ankylosaurian dinosaurs, from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous Period of what are now North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Antarctica.

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Nopcsaspondylus

Nopcsaspondylus (meaning "Nopsca's vertebra", in reference to the original describer) is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur (a type of large, long-necked quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur) from the Cenomanian-age (Upper Cretaceous) Candeleros Formation of Neuquén, Argentina.

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Norian

The Norian is a division of the Triassic geological period.

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Nuku Hiva

Nuku Hiva (sometimes erroneously spelled "Nukahiva") is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

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Nuku Hiva rail

The Nuku Hiva rail (Gallirallus epulare) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family.

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Oceanosuchus

Oceanosuchus is a genus of pholidosaurid mesoeucrocodylian, a type of marine crocodylomorph.

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Oldman Formation

The Oldman Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) age that underlies much of southern Alberta, Canada.

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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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Ornithischia

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure similar to that of birds.

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Ornithopod

Ornithopods or members of the clade Ornithopoda are a group of ornithischian dinosaurs that started out as small, bipedal running grazers, and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world, and dominated the North American landscape.

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Orontium

Orontium, sometimes called golden-club, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae.

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Orontium mackii

Orontium mackii is an extinct golden club species in the family Araceae described from a series of isolated fossil leaves.

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Orontium wolfei

Orontium wolfei is an extinct golden-club species in the family Araceae described from a series of isolated fossil leaves.

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Oryctodromeus

Oryctodromeus (meaning "digging runner") was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur.

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Oviraptorosauria

Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

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Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.

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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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Pahasapasaurus

Pahasapasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur.

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Palaeoagaracites

Palaeoagaracites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the order Agaricales.

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Palaeognathae

Palaeognathae, or paleognaths, is one of the two living clades of birds – the other being Neognathae.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Palmula

Palmula is an extinct genus of foraminifera which is known from a number of species found in rocks dating from near the beginning of the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand.

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Palmulasaurus

Palmulasaurus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Utah.

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Pantydraco

Pantydraco (where "panty-" is short for Pant-y-ffynnon, signifying hollow of the spring/well in Welsh, referring to the quarry at Bonvilston in South Wales where it was found) was a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom.

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Paraprotopteryx

Paraprotopteryx is a genus of enantiornithean birds from the Mesozoic of China.

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Parrot

Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Peirosauridae

Peirosauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Cretaceous period.

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Pelecanoides miokuaka

Pelecanoides miokuaka is an extinct species of diving petrel of New Zealand.

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Penguin

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.

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Perudyptes

Perudyptes is a basal penguin from the Middle Eocene Paracas Formation of Peru.

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Peter Galton

Peter Malcolm Galton (born 14 March 1942 in London, England) is an American vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.

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Petrified Forest Formation

The Petrified Forest Formation is a geologic formation in New Mexico.

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Pholidosauridae

Pholidosauridae is an extinct family of aquatic neosuchian mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs.

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Phorusrhacidae

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their temporal range covers from 62 to 1.8 million years (Ma) ago.

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Phylliidae

The family Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics (mimesis) in the entire animal kingdom.

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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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Pliensbachian

The Pliensbachian is an age of the geologic timescale or stage in the stratigraphic column.

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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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Portezuelo Formation

The Portezuelo Formation is a geologic formation outcropping in the Mendoza, Río Negro and Neuquén provinces of Argentina.

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Pradhania

Pradhania is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age (Early Jurassic) Upper Dharmaram Formation of India.

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Principiala

Principiala is an extinct genus of lacewing in the moth lacewings family Ithonidae.

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Protosialis casca

Protosialis casca is an extinct species of alderfly in the Sialidae subfamily Sialinae.

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Qiupa Formation

The Qiupa Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in Henan Province, central China.

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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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Rauisuchia

"Rauisuchia" is a group of mostly large (often) Triassic archosaurs.

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Rebbachisauridae

Rebbachisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from fragmentary fossil remains from the Cretaceous of South America, Africa, and Europe.

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Rhaetian

The Rhaetian is, in geochronology, the latest age of the Triassic period or in chronostratigraphy the uppermost stage of the Triassic system.

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Rinchen Barsbold

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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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Sankar Chatterjee

Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University.

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Santa Lucía Formation

The Santa Lucía Formation is a Maastrichtian to Paleocene (Danian) geologic formation in Bolivia.

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Santonian

The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, or the sauropods (sauro- + -pod, "lizard-footed"), are a clade of saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs.

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Sauropodomorpha

Sauropodomorpha (from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.

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Sauroposeidon

Sauroposeidon (meaning "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the American states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.

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Schwenckfeldina archoica

Schwenckfeldina archoica is an extinct species of dark winged fungus gnat in the family Sciaridae known from a solitary Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossil found in Mexico.

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Sciaridae

The Sciaridae are a family of flies, commonly known as dark-winged fungus gnats.

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Sebecidae

Sebecidae is an extinct family of prehistoric mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs.

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Sebecus

Sebecus (meaning "Sebek" in Latin) is an extinct genus of sebecid crocodylomorph from the Paleocene (Tiupampan) to Middle Miocene (Laventan) of South America.

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Shanag

Shanag is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.

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Shantungosaurus

Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group of the Shandong Peninsula in China.

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Shigeru Suzuki

is a Japanese musician, songwriter and guitarist.

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Shishugou Formation

The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China.

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Sinemurian

In the geologic timescale, the Sinemurian is an age or stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic epoch or series.

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Sinocalliopteryx

Sinocalliopteryx (meaning 'Chinese beautiful feather') is a genus of carnivorous compsognathid theropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China (Jianshangou Beds, dating to 124.6 Ma).

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Sophiornithidae

The Sophiornithidae (literally "wisdom birds") are an extinct family of chicken-sized predatory birds that lived from the Paleocene to the Eocene periods of the Cenozoic, and were found primarily in Europe, and are thought to be primitive owls.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Southern lapwing

The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) is a wader in the order Charadriiformes.

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Stegosauria

Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

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Suzhousaurus

Suzhousaurus is a genus of herbivorous therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Xinminpu Group of the Yujingzi Basin, Gansu, China.

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Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

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Tahuata

Tahuata is the smallest of the inhabited Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

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Tahuata rail

The Tahuata rail (Gallirallus roletti) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family.

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Tapejaridae

Tapejaridae (meaning "the old beings") are a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period.

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Therizinosaur

Therizinosaurs (or segnosaurs) were theropod dinosaurs belonging to the clade Therizinosauria.

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Titanosaur

Titanosaurs (members of the group Titanosauria) were a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs which included Saltasaurus and Isisaurus.

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Toarcian

The Toarcian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, an age or stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic.

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Tomistominae

Tomistominae is a subfamily of crocodylians that includes one living species, the false gharial.

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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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Trochodendron

Trochodendron is a genus of flowering plants with one living species, Trochodendron aralioides, and six extinct species known from the fossil record.

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Trochodendron drachukii

Trochodendron drachukii is an extinct species of flowering plants in the family Trochodendraceae known from a fossil fruiting structure found in the early Ypresian age Eocene fossils found in British Columbia, Canada.

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Tupandactylus

Tupandactylus (meaning "Tupan finger", in reference to the Tupi thunder god) is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil.

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Turolian

The Turolian age is a period of geologic time (9.0—5.3 Ma) within the Miocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.

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Twin Mountains Formation

The Twin Mountains Formation, also known as the Twin Mountain Formation, is a sedimentary rock formation, within the Trinity Group, found in Texas of the United States of America.

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Two Medicine Formation

The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma and 70.6 ± 3.4 Ma (million years ago), during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time, and is located in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta.

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Ua Huka

Ua Huka is one of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

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Ua Huka rail

The Ua Huka rail (Gallirallus gracilitibia) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family.

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Upper Dharmaram Formation

The Upper Dharmaram Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation found in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Urbacodon

Urbacodon ("URBAC tooth") is a genus of troodontid dinosaur, a type of small carnivore.

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Vastanavis

Vastanavis is a genus of parrot-like bird that lived in what is now western India in the Early Eocene.

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Voay

Voay is an extinct genus of crocodile from Madagascar and includes only one species—V.

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Vulpes riffautae

Vulpes riffautae is an extinct species of fox from the late Miocene of Chad (approximately 7 ma).

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Wesley Wehr

Wesley Conrad Wehr (April 17, 1929 – April 12, 2004) was an American paleontologist and artist best known for his studies of Cenozoic fossil floras in western North America, the Stonerose Interpretive Center, and as a part of the Northwest School of art.

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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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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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Zhejiangosaurus

Zhejiangosaurus (meaning "Zhejiang lizard") is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian stage) of Zhejiang, eastern China.

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Zhongyuansaurus

Zhongyuansaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan, China.

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Zulmasuchus

Zulmasuchus (meaning "Zulma Gasparini's crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecid sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_in_paleontology

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