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152 relations: Abrahamskraal formation, Albatross, Amazonsaurus, Amitabha (bird), Anomodont, Anonymity, Ant, Antetonitrus, Apodiformes, Archaeovenator, Ascension Island, Ascension night heron, Atacamatitan, Aureofungus, Aviatyrannis, Axel Heiberg Island, Bainoceratops, Beipiaopterus, Brachiosaurus, Brasilitherium, Brasilodon, Bridger Formation, Bridgerian North American Stage, Brohisaurus, Brownimecia, Buchanan Lake Formation, Bullacephalus, Bunostegos, Burdigalian, Caracal (genus), Carduelinae, Cariamiformes, Carnepigondolella, Catarrhini, Chamaecyparis, Chamaecyparis eureka, Chaoyangopterus, Christian Sidor, Colepiocephale, Colobodectes, Columbidae, Corylus johnsonii, Crane (bird), Crato Formation, Darter, Dicraeosaurus, Dominican amber, Dong Zhiming, Drepanidini, Dromaeosauroides, ..., Early Cretaceous, Eocene, Equijubus, Falconidae, Felidae, Ferganasaurus, Finch, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Florissantoraphidia funerata, Fukuisaurus, Galliformes, Gerald Mayr, Giant nukupu'u, Giraffatitan, Gobititan, Green River Formation, Halictus? savenyei, Hamilton Quarry, Hanssuesia, Harpactognathus, Hawaii, Heinz Kozur, Helen F. James, Henderson ground dove, Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands), Heron, Heyuannia, Hoatzin, Holocene, Huayquerian, Hyaenodontidae, Idiornithidae, Isisaurus, Janenschia, Jeffrey A. Wilson, Jidapterus, Klondike Mountain Formation, Lamaceratops, Lanthanostegus, Liaoningopterus, Ludodactylus, Lusotitan, Lutetian, Lynx issiodorensis, Magnirostris, Mark Norell, Mendozasaurus, Messel pit, Michael S. Engel, Minnesota State Highway 4, Minnesota State Highway 5, Miocene, Namibiavis, New Jersey amber, Nomen nudum, Nurhachius, Oi Formation, Olorotitan, Opisthocomidae, Paleontology, Pelycosaur, Penguin, Phasianidae, Phosphatodraco, Piacenzian, Pisco Formation, Platyceratops, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Prenocephale, Priabonian, Psittacosaurus, Quaternary, Rajasaurus, Rinconsaurus, Sandpiper, Santacruzodon, Secretarybird, Serendipaceratops, Shenzhousaurus, Shuangmiaosaurus, Silesaurus, Sinopterus, Sinornithomimus, Sphaerotholus, Storrs L. Olson, Stratigraphy, Sulidae, Sunbittern, Synonym (taxonomy), Terminonatator, Thililua, Tornieria, Trevor H. Worthy, Turonian, Wasatch Formation, Wesmaelius mathewesi, Xiyukannemeyeria, Yixianosaurus, Ypresian, Zalmoxes, Zupaysaurus. Expand index (102 more) »
Abrahamskraal formation
The Abrahamskraal Formation is the lowermost formation of the Beaufort Group.
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Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
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Amazonsaurus
Amazonsaurus ("Amazon lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now South America.
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Amitabha (bird)
Amitabha urbsinterdictensis is an ancient bird from the Middle Eocene (approximately 50 million years before the present) in North America.
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Anomodont
Anomodontia is an extinct group of non-mammalian therapsids containing many species from the Permian and Triassic periods (possibly continuing into the Early Cretaceous), most of which were toothless, possibly endothermic herbivores.
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Anonymity
Anonymity, adjective "anonymous", is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness".
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Antetonitrus
Antetonitrus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur found in Early Jurassic rocks in South Africa.
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Apodiformes
Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts (Apodidae), the treeswifts (Hemiprocnidae), and the hummingbirds (Trochilidae).
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Archaeovenator
Archaeovenator is an extinct genus of Late Carboniferous varanopid synapsids known from Greenwood County, Kansas of the United States.
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Ascension Island
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56' south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Ascension night heron
The Ascension night heron (Nycticorax olsoni) is an extinct night heron species from the genus Nycticorax endemic to the South Atlantic island of Ascension.
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Atacamatitan
Atacamatitan (meaning "Atacama Desert titan") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur.
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Aureofungus
Aureofungus is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the order Agaricales.
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Aviatyrannis
Aviatyrannis is a genus of carnivorous tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic found in Portugal.
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Axel Heiberg Island
Axel Heiberg Island is an island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Bainoceratops
Bainoceratops (Bain: mountain, keras: horn, ops: face) was a genus of dinosaur from the late Campanian in the Late Cretaceous.
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Beipiaopterus
Beipiaopterus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur (flying reptile) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Aptian) in the People's Republic of China.
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Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America.
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Brasilitherium
Brasilitherium ("Brazilian beast") is an extinct genus of cynodonts that lived during the Middle to Late Triassic in what is now Brazil.
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Brasilodon
Brasilodon ("Brazil tooth") is an extinct genus of cynodonts that lived during the Norian age of the Late Triassic Period, about 228 to 208.5 million years ago.
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Bridger Formation
The Bridger Formation is a geologic formation in southwestern Wyoming.
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Bridgerian North American Stage
The Bridgerian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 50,300,000 to 46,200,000 years BP lasting.
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Brohisaurus
Brohisaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, based on largely indeterminate fragments of some ribs, vertebrae, and limb bones.
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Brownimecia
Brownimecia is an extinct genus of ants, the only genus in the tribe Brownimeciini and subfamily Brownimeciinae of the Formicidae.
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Buchanan Lake Formation
The Buchanan Lake Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut.
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Bullacephalus
Bullacephalus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids belonging to the family Burnetiidae.
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Bunostegos
Bunostegos ("knobbly roof") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptile from the Late Permian of the Agadez Region in Niger.
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Burdigalian
The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene.
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Caracal (genus)
Caracal is a genus of the subfamily Felinae in the family Felidae.
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Carduelinae
The cardueline finches are a subfamily, Carduelinae, one of three subfamilies of the finch family Fringillidae, the others being the Fringillinae and the Euphoniinae.
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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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Carnepigondolella
Carnepigondolella is an extinct genus of conodonts of the Late Triassic of Italy or Canada.
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Catarrhini
Catarrhini is one of the two subdivisions of the simians, the other being the plathyrrhine (New World monkeys).
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Chamaecyparis
Chamaecyparis, common names cypress or false cypress (to distinguish it from related cypresses), is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and to the western and eastern margins of the United States.
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Chamaecyparis eureka
Chamaecyparis eureka is an extinct species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae.
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Chaoyangopterus
Chaoyangopterus is a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur known from a partial skeleton found in Liaoning, China.
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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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Colepiocephale
Colepiocephale is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian stage) deposits of Alberta, Canada.
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Colobodectes
Colobodectes is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from South Africa.
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Columbidae
Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.
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Corylus johnsonii
Corylus johnsonii is an extinct species of hazel known from fossil fruits found in the Klondike Mountain Formation deposits of Northern Washington State, dated to the early Eocene Ypresian stage.
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Crane (bird)
Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes.
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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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Darter
The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga.
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Dicraeosaurus
Dicraeosaurus (Gr. δικραιος, dikraios "bifurcated, double-headed" + Gr. σαυρος, sauros "lizard") is a genus of small diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur.
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Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic.
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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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Drepanidini
Drepanidini is a tribe of Hawaiian honeycreeper birds.
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Dromaeosauroides
Dromaeosauroides is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Denmark.
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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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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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Equijubus
Equijubus (Mǎzōng meaning "horse mane" after the area Mǎzōng Mountain 马鬃山 in which it was found), is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of northwestern China.
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Falconidae
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae.
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Felidae
The biological family Felidae is a lineage of carnivorans colloquially referred to as cats.
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Ferganasaurus
Ferganasaurus was a genus of dinosaur first formally described in 2003 by Alifanov and Averianov.
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Finch
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument located in Teller County, Colorado.
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Florissantoraphidia funerata
Florissantoraphidia funerata is an extinct species of snakefly, originally assigned to the raphidiid genus Raphidia, but subsequently transferred to the genus Florissantoraphidia.
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Fukuisaurus
Fukuisaurus (meaning "Fukui lizard") is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous.
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Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae.
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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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Giant nukupu'u
The giant nukupuu (Hemignathus vorpalis) is an extinct species of finch in the Fringillidae family, which is only known from fossil remains.
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Giraffatitan
Giraffatitan, meaning "giant giraffe", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages).
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Gobititan
Gobititan is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian faunal stage of the Early Cretaceous, approximately 129-125 million years ago.
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Green River Formation
The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
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Halictus? savenyei
Halictus? savenyei is an extinct species of sweat bee possibly in the halictid genus Halictus.
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Hamilton Quarry
Hamilton Quarry is a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas, United States.
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Hanssuesia
Hanssuesia is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period.
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Harpactognathus
Harpactognathus (meaning "seizing/grasping jaw") was a genus of pterosaur found in the Late Jurassic-age Morrison Formation of Albany County, Wyoming, United States.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Heinz Kozur
Heinz Walter Kozur (born 26 March 1942 in Hoyerswerda; died 20 December 2013 in Budapest) was a German paleontologist and stratigrapher.
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Helen F. James
Helen Frances James (born May 22, 1956) is an American paleontologist and paleornithologist who has published extensively on the fossil birds of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Henderson ground dove
The Henderson ground dove (Alopecoenas leonpascoi), or Henderson Island ground dove, is an extinct species of bird in the family Columbidae.
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Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands)
Henderson Island (formerly also San Juan Bautista and Elizabeth Island) is an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean.
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Heron
The herons are the long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons.
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Heyuannia
Heyuannia ("Heyuan one") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in China.
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Hoatzin
The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), also known as the reptile bird, skunk bird, stinkbird, or Canje pheasant, is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco basins in South America.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Huayquerian
The Huayquerian age is a period of geologic time (9.0—6.8 Ma) within the Miocene epoch of the Neogene used more specifically with South American Land Mammal Ages.
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Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodontidae ("hyena teeth") is a family of extinct predatory mammals, and is the type family of the extinct mammalian order Hyaenodonta.
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Idiornithidae
Idiornithidae is an extinct family of Cariamiformes.
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Isisaurus
Isisaurus (named after the Indian Statistical Institute) is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period.
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Janenschia
Janenschia (named after Werner Janensch) was a large sauropod from Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, Africa (155 million years ago).
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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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Jidapterus
Jidapterus is a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
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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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Lamaceratops
Lamaceratops (meaning "Lama Horned Face"), is a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
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Lanthanostegus
Lanthanostegus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids.
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Liaoningopterus
Liaoningopterus, sometimes misspelled "Liaoningopteryx", was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
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Ludodactylus
Ludodactylus was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Ceará, Brazil.
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Lusotitan
Lusotitan is a genus of herbivorous brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of Portugal.
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Lutetian
The Lutetian is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the Eocene.
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Lynx issiodorensis
The Issoire lynx (Lynx issiodorensis) is an extinct species of lynx that inhabited Europe during the late Pliocene to Pleistocene epoches, and may have originated in Africa during the late Pliocene.
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Magnirostris
Magnirostris, from the Latin magnus "large" and rostrum "beak", is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the upper Campanian stage in the Upper Cretaceous.
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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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Mendozasaurus
Mendozasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur.
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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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Minnesota State Highway 4
Minnesota State Highway 4 (MN 4) is a highway in southwest and west-central Minnesota, which runs from Iowa Highway 4 at the Iowa state line (near Dunnell, MN and Estherville, IA), and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with Interstate Highway 94 near Sauk Centre and Melrose.
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Minnesota State Highway 5
"MN 5" redirects here.
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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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Namibiavis
Namibiavis is an extinct genus of early hoatzin from early Middle Miocene (about 16 mya) deposits of Namibia.
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New Jersey amber
New Jersey Amber, sometimes called Raritan amber, is amber found in the Raritan and Magothy Formations of the Central Atlantic (Eastern) coast of the United States.
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Nomen nudum
The phrase nomen nudum (plural nomina nuda) is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy (especially in zoological and botanical nomenclature).
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Nurhachius
Nurhachius is a genus of istiodactylid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
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Oi Formation
The Oi Formation is a palaeontological formation located in the Ichishi region of Central Japan.
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Olorotitan
Olorotitan was a genus of lambeosaurine duckbilled dinosaur from the middle or latest Maastrichtian-age Late Cretaceous,Godefroit, P., Lauters, P., Van Itterbeeck, J., Bolotsky, Y. and Bolotsky, I.Y. (2011).
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Opisthocomidae
Opisthocomidae is a group of birds, the only named family within the order Opisthocomiformes.
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Paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Pelycosaur
The pelycosaurs (from Greek πέλυξ pelyx 'wooden bowl' or 'axe' and σαῦρος sauros 'lizard') are an informal grouping (previously considered an order) composed of basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, sometimes erroneously referred to as "mammal-like reptiles".
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Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.
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Phasianidae
The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, groundliving birds which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Old World quail, and peafowl.
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Phosphatodraco
Phosphatodraco (meaning "phosphate dragon", in reference to the phosphates of Morocco, the country where it was found) is a genus of azhdarchid pterodactyloid pterosaur from a late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous portion of the Oulad (or Qualad) Abdoun Phosphatic Basin, Grand Doui, near Khouribga, central Morocco.
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Piacenzian
The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.
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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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Platyceratops
Platyceratops is a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, during the Campanian Age, about 75-72 million years ago.
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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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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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Prenocephale
Prenocephale was a small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Mongolia and was similar in many ways to its close relative, Homalocephale, which may simply represent Prenocephale juveniles.
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Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene epoch or series.
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Psittacosaurus
Psittacosaurus ("parrot lizard") is a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Asia, existing between 126 and 101 million years ago.
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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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Rajasaurus
Rajasaurus ('Raja' meaning "king" (derived from Sanskrit) here,"king of lizards") is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurian theropod dinosaur with an unusual head crest.
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Rinconsaurus
Rinconsaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.
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Sandpiper
Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds.
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Santacruzodon
Santacruzodon is an extinct genus of cynodonts which existed in Brazil during the Triassic period.
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Secretarybird
The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a very large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey.
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Serendipaceratops
Serendipaceratops (meaning "serendipitous horned face") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of Australia.
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Shenzhousaurus
Shenzhousaurus is a genus of basal ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China.
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Shuangmiaosaurus
Shuangmiaosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur which lived during the late Albian age of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 100 million years ago.
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Silesaurus
Silesaurus is a genus of silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic, approximately 230 million years ago in the Carnian faunal stage of what is now Poland.
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Sinopterus
Sinopterus (meaning "Chinese wing") was a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
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Sinornithomimus
Sinornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur found in 1997, in the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Ulansuhai Formation located at Alshanzuo Banner, Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, Northern China.
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Sphaerotholus
Sphaerotholus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the western United States and Canada.
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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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Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).
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Sulidae
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies.
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Sunbittern
The sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) is a bittern-like bird of tropical regions of the Americas, and the sole member of the family Eurypygidae (sometimes spelled Eurypigidae) and genus Eurypyga.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.
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Terminonatator
Terminonatator (meaning "last swimmer") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Thililua
Thililua is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur, containing one species, T. longicollis.
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Tornieria
Tornieria ("for Tornier") is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from Late Jurassic of Tanzania.
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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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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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Wasatch Formation
The Wasatch Formation is a geologic formation in Wyoming.
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Wesmaelius mathewesi
Wesmaelius mathewesi is an extinct species of lacewing in the neuropteran family Hemerobiidae known from an Eocene fossil found in North America.
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Xiyukannemeyeria
Xiyukannemeyeria is a genus of dicynodont from Middle Triassic (Anisian) of China.
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Yixianosaurus
Yixianosaurus (meaning "Yixian lizard") is a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous of China.
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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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Zalmoxes
Zalmoxes is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania.
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Zupaysaurus
Zupaysaurus ("ZOO-pay-SAWR-us") is a genus of early theropod dinosaur living during the Rhaetian stage of the Late Triassic to Hettangian stage of the Early Jurassic of what is now Argentina.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_in_paleontology
