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Albian

Index Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. [1]

190 relations: Abydosaurus, Acanthopholis, Acrocanthosaurus, Adkinsites, Aegyptosaurus, Age (geology), Aioloceras, Alcide d'Orbigny, Altirhinus, Alxasaurus, Amazonsaurus, Amblydectes, Ammonitida, Ammonoidea, Anacleoniceras, Anadesmoceras, Anagaudryceras, Anahoplites, Animantarx, Anisoceras, Ankylosauria, Anoplosaurus, Antlers Formation, Aptian, Archaeoceratops, Arcthoplites, Arestoceras, Arundel Formation, Astiericeras, Astrodon, Atlascopcosaurus, Aube (river), Aussiedraco, Barremian, Belemnitida, Belospirula, Berriasian, Beudantiella, Bird, Brachiosaurus, Brancoceras, Brontomerus, Callihoplites, Cambridge Greensand, Cambridge University Press, Camptosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Cedar Mountain Formation, Cedarpelta, Cenomanian, ..., Ceratopsia, Chalk Group, Chondrichthyes, Chubutisaurus, Cleoniceras, Cloverly Formation, Coccolithophore, Coloborhynchus, Cretoxyrhina, Cristatusaurus, Crocodylomorpha, Dakota Formation, Deinonychus, Dimitobelus, Dinosaur Cove, Dipoloceras, Douvilleiceras, Early Cretaceous, Eobaatar, Eolambia, Epoch (geology), Erectopus, Euhoplites, Flammenmergel, Flickia, Foraminifera, Forest of Argonne, France, Frontier Formation, Fukuiraptor, Gansus, Gaudryceras, Genusaurus, Geologic time scale, Germany, Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, Gobi Desert, Gobisaurus, Hühteeg Svita, Ichthyosaur, Iguanodon, Irritator, Ischyodus, Jeholornis, Karamaiceras, Karamaites, Kollikodon, Kossmatella, Kronosaurus, Lagarcito Formation, Leaellynasaura, Lechites, Liaoceratops, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Lignite, Lonchodraco, Lonchognathosaurus, Lyelliceras, Mammal, Mantelliceras, Mariella, Mortoniceras, Muttaburrasaurus, Mythunga, Nanyangosaurus, Nautiloid, North America, Nubian Sandstone, Ornithopod, Ornithostoma, Osteichthyes, Ostlingoceras, Otohoplites, Pachydesmoceras, Paw Paw Formation, Pawpawsaurus, Pays de Bray, Penelopognathus, Phosphorite, Phylloceratina, Platypterygius, Plesiosauria, Prince George's County, Maryland, Probactrosaurus, Pterodaustro, Pterosaur, Purgatoire Formation, Puzosia, Puzosia (Bhimaites), Qantassaurus, Rugocaudia, Santana Formation, Santanadactylus, Sarcosuchus, Sauropelta, Sauropoda, Sauroposeidon, Scapanorhynchus, Scaphites, Schloenbachia, Series (stratigraphy), Shamosaurus, Siluosaurus, Silvisaurus, Sinornithoides, Sonneratia, Spain, Spinosaurus, Stage (stratigraphy), Stegopelta, Steropodon, Stratigraphic column, Suchomimus, Tataouinea, Tenontosaurus, Texasetes, Thalassodromeus, Theiophytalia, Theropoda, Thrissops, Timimus, Toolebuc Formation, Tupuxuara, Turonian, Ulansuhai Formation, United Kingdom, Utahraptor, Utrillas, Valanginian, Venenosaurus, Winton Formation, Wintonotitan, World War II, Xiphactinus, Yamaceratops, Year, Zealandites, Zephyrosaurus, Zhejiangopterus, Zuluscaphites. Expand index (140 more) »

Abydosaurus

Abydosaurus (meaning "Abydos lizard") is a genus of brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur known from skull and postcranial material found in upper Lower Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Utah, United States.

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Acanthopholis

Acanthopholis (meaning "spiny scales") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of England.

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Acrocanthosaurus

Acrocanthosaurus (meaning "high-spined lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous.

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Adkinsites

Adkinsites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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Aegyptosaurus

Aegyptosaurus meaning 'Egypt’s lizard', for the country in which it was discovered (Greek sauros meaning 'lizard') is a genus of sauropod dinosaur believed to have lived in what is now Africa, around 95 million years ago, during the mid- and late-Cretaceous Period (Albian to Cenomanian stages).

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Age (geology)

A geologic age is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an epoch into smaller parts.

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Aioloceras

Aioloceras is an ammonite, order Ammonitida, from near the end of the Early Cretaceous.

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Alcide d'Orbigny

Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.

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Altirhinus

Altirhinus ("high snout") is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.

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Alxasaurus

Alxasaurus ("Alxa Desert lizard") is a genus of therizinosauroid alxasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Inner Mongolia.

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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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Amblydectes

Amblydectes is known from fragments of jaw.

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Ammonitida

Ammonitida is an order of more highly evolved ammonoid cephalopods that lived from the Jurassic through Cretaceous time periods, commonly with intricate ammonitic sutures.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are an extinct group of marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda.

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Anacleoniceras

Anacleoniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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Anadesmoceras

Anadesmoceras is an hoplitid ammonite from the lower Albian (upper Lower Cretaceous) of England, included in the subfamily Cleoniceratinae.

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Anagaudryceras

Anagaudryceras is an extinct genus of ammonite from the later Cretaceous belonging to the Ammonoidea family Gaudryceratidae.

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Anahoplites

Anahoplites is a genus of rather involute, compressed hoplitid ammonites with flat sides, narrow flat or grooved venters, and flexious ribs or striae arising from weak umbilicle tubercles that end in fine dense ventrolateral nodes.

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Animantarx

Animantarx (meaning 'living citadel') is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America.

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Anisoceras

Anisoceras is a heteromorph ammonite belonging to the turrilitoid family Anisoceratidae.

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Ankylosauria

Ankylosauria is a group of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs of the order Ornithischia.

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Anoplosaurus

Anoplosaurus (meaning "unarmored or unarmed lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur, from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Antlers Formation

The Antlers Formation is a stratum which ranges from Arkansas through southern Oklahoma into northeastern Texas.

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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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Archaeoceratops

Archaeoceratops, meaning "ancient horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of north central China.

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Arcthoplites

Arcthoplites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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Arestoceras

Arestoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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Arundel Formation

The Arundel Formation, also known as the Arundel Clay, is a clay-rich sedimentary rock formation, within the Potomac Group, found in Maryland of the United States of America.

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Astiericeras

Astiericeras is an ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous, the shell of which is evolute, stout; outer whorl with strong, well spaced, transverse ribs that cross smoothly over the broad venter; early whorls with lateral tubercles.

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Astrodon

Astrodon (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, related to Brachiosaurus, that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period.

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Atlascopcosaurus

Atlascopcosaurus (meaning "Atlas Copco lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the present Australia.

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Aube (river)

The Aube is a river in France, a right tributary of the Seine.

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Aussiedraco

Aussiedraco is a genus of basal ornithocheiroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the early Cretaceous of Australia.

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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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Belemnitida

Belemnitida (or belemnites) is an extinct order of cephalopods which existed during the Mesozoic era, from the Hettangian age of the Lower Jurassic to the Maastrichtian age of the Upper Cretaceous.

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Belospirula

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Berriasian

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

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Beudantiella

Beudantiella is a high whorled, compressed, sparsely ribbed ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous, (Upper Albian), found in Queensland, Australia.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brachiosaurus

Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America.

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Brancoceras

Brancoceras is a rather small, strongly ribbed, acanthoceratacean ammonite from the Albian stage of the Lower Cretaceous, the shell evolute with a subquadrate whorl section and rounded venter.

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Brontomerus

Brontomerus (from Greek bronte meaning "thunder", and merós meaning "thigh") is a possibly dubious genus of camarasauromorph sauropod which lived during the early Cretaceous (Aptian or Albian age, approximately 110 million years ago).

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Callihoplites

Callihoplites is a genus of rather evolute ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous, Late Albian.

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Cambridge Greensand

The Cambridge Greensand is a geological formation in England whose strata date back to the Middle to Late Cretaceous.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Camptosaurus

Camptosaurus is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America.

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Carcharodontosaurus

Carcharodontosaurus is a genus of carnivorous carcharodontosaurid dinosaurs that existed between 112 and 93.5 million years ago,Holtz, Thomas R. Jr.

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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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Cedarpelta

Cedarpelta is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur, based on material recovered from the Lower Cretaceous of North America.

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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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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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Chalk Group

The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is the lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) which contains the late Cretaceous limestone succession in southern and eastern England.

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Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes (from Greek χονδρ- chondr- 'cartilage', ἰχθύς ichthys 'fish') is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.

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Chubutisaurus

Chubutisaurus (meaning "Chubut lizard") is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period.

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Cleoniceras

Cleoniceras is a rather involute, high-whorled hoplitid from the Lower to basal Middle Albian of Europe, Madagascar, and Transcaspian region.

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Cloverly Formation

The Cloverly Formation is a geological formation of Early Cretaceous age (Aptian to Albian stage) that is present in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in the western United States.

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Coccolithophore

A coccolithophore (or coccolithophorid, from the adjective) is a unicellular, eukaryotic phytoplankton (alga).

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Coloborhynchus

Coloborhynchus is a genus in the pterosaur family Ornithocheiridae, and is known from the Lower Cretaceous of England (Valanginian age, 140-136 million years ago), and depending on which species are included, possibly the Albian age (113-100.5 million years ago) as well.

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Cretoxyrhina

Cretoxyrhina mantelli was a large shark that lived about 100 to 82 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.

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Cristatusaurus

Cristatusaurus (meaning "crested lizard") is a genus of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now West Africa.

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Crocodylomorpha

Crocodylomorpha is a group of archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.

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Dakota Formation

The Dakota Formation (also Dakota Sandstone and Cockrum Sandstone, more formally the Dakota Group) is a geologic formation composed of sedimentary rocks deposited on the eastern side of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.

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Deinonychus

Deinonychus (δεινός, 'terrible' and ὄνυξ, genitive ὄνυχος 'claw') is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur with one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus.

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Dimitobelus

--> Dimitobelus is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

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Dinosaur Cove

The Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia is a fossil-bearing site in the south-east of the continent where the Otway Ranges meet the sea to the west of Cape Otway, adjacent to Great Otway National Park (map).

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Dipoloceras

Dipoloceras is a rather evolute, strongly ribbed and well keeled acanthocerataean ammonite from the Albian stage of the Lower Cretaceous included in the brancoceratid subfamily Mojsisovicziinae.

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Douvilleiceras

Douvilleiceras is a genus of ammonites from the Middle to Late Cretaceous.

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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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Eobaatar

Eobaatar is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia, Spain and England.

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Eolambia

Eolambia (meaning "dawn lambeosaurine") is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of the USA.

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Epoch (geology)

In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age but shorter than a period.

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Erectopus

Erectopus is a basal allosauroid theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of France.

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Euhoplites

Euhoplites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower Cretaceous, characterized by strongly ribbed, more or less evolute, compressed to inflated shells with flat or concave ribs, typically with a deep narrow groove running down the middle.

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Flammenmergel

The Flammenmergel is a lithological unit of the Lower Chalk in Germany.

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Flickia

Flickia is an ammonite genus from the Upper Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

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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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Forest of Argonne

The Forest of Argonne is a long strip of rocky mountain and wild woodland in north-eastern three hours east of Paris France.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frontier Formation

The Frontier Formation is a sedimentary geological formation whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.

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Fukuiraptor

Fukuiraptor ("thief of Fukui") was a medium-sized megaraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) that lived in what is now Japan.

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Gansus

Gansus is a genus of aquatic birds that lived during the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) period in what are now Gansu and Liaoning provinces, western China.

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Gaudryceras

Gaudryceras is an ammonite genus belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.

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Genusaurus

Genusaurus (meaning "knee lizard") is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale (GTS) is a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata (stratigraphy) to time.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point

A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, abbreviated GSSP, is an internationally agreed upon reference point on a stratigraphic section which defines the lower boundary of a stage on the geologic time scale.

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Gobi Desert

The Gobi Desert is a large desert region in Asia.

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Gobisaurus

Gobisaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of China (Nei Mongol Zizhiqu).

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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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Ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard" – ιχθυς or ichthys meaning "fish" and σαυρος or sauros meaning "lizard") are large marine reptiles.

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Iguanodon

Iguanodon (meaning "iguana-tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the duck-billed dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.

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Irritator

Irritator is a genus of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period (Albian stage), around 110 million years ago, of what is now Brazil.

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Ischyodus

Ischyodus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish belonging to the subclass Holocephali, which includes the modern-day chimaeras.

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Jeholornis

Jeholornis (meaning "Jehol bird") is a genus of avialans that lived between approximately 122 and 120 million years ago during the early Cretaceous Period in China.

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Karamaiceras

Karamaiceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the Ammonoidea that lived during the Early Cretaceous.

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Karamaites

Karamites is an extinct cephalopoda genus belonging to the Ammonoidea and included in the hoplitacean family Placenticeratidae.

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Kollikodon

Kollikodon ritchiei is a australosphenidan species, often classified as a monotreme but more recently recovered as an outgroup.

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Kossmatella

Kossmatella is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Lytoceratidae.

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Kronosaurus

Kronosaurus (meaning "lizard of Kronos") is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur.

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Lagarcito Formation

The Lagarcito Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Argentina.

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Leaellynasaura

Leaellynasaura (meaning "Leaellyn's lizard") is a genus of small herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs from the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous (dated to between 118 and 110 million years agoHoltz, Thomas R. Jr. (2012) Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages), first discovered in Dinosaur Cove, Australia.

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Lechites

Lechites, or Lekhites, is a name given to certain West Slavic peoples, including the ancestors of modern Poles and the historical Pomeranians and Polabians, speakers of the Lechitic languages.

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Liaoceratops

Liaoceratops, meaning "Liao Horned Face", is a ceratopsian dinosaur believed to be an early relative of the horned ceratopsids.

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Lightning Ridge, New South Wales

Lightning Ridge is a town in northern New South Wales, Australia, in Walgett Shire, near the southern border of Queensland, about six kilometres east of the Castlereagh Highway, and is served in commercial activities by the town of Walgett, some 75 km to the south.

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Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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Lonchodraco

Lonchodraco is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of England.

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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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Lyelliceras

Lyelliceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Mantelliceras

Mantelliceras is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Acanthoceratidae and type for the Mantelliceratinae, that lived from the Late Albian to the late Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

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Mariella

Mariella is an ammonoid genus, named by Nowak (1916) from the upper Albian and Cenomanian stages of the mid Cretaceous, included in the Turrilitidae.

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Mortoniceras

Mortoniceras is an ammonoid genus belonging to the superfamily Acanthocerataceae, named by Meek in 1876, based on Ammonites vespertinu, named by Morton in 1834.

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Muttaburrasaurus

Muttaburrasaurus was a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur, which lived in what is now northeastern Australia sometime between 112 and 99.6 million years agoHoltz, Thomas R. Jr.

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Mythunga

Mythunga is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia.

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Nanyangosaurus

Nanyangosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur belonging to Hadrosauroidea that lived in the Late Cretaceous of present-day Henan Province, China.

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Nautiloid

Nautiloids are a large and diverse group of marine cephalopods (Mollusca) belonging to the subclass Nautiloidea that began in the Late Cambrian and are represented today by the living Nautilus and Allonautilus.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Nubian Sandstone

The Nubian Sandstone is a variety of sedimentary rock deposited on the Precambrian basement in the eastern Sahara, north-east Africa and Arabian Peninsula.

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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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Ornithostoma

Ornithostoma (meaning "bird mouth") is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaurs.

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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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Ostlingoceras

Ostlingoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Turrilitidae family.

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Otohoplites

Otohoplites is a genus of ammonite that lived in the Early Albian and whose fossils were found in Svalbard, Denmark, England, France, Austria, Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan.

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Pachydesmoceras

Pachydesmoceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Desmoceratidae.

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Paw Paw Formation

The Paw Paw Formation is a geological formation in Texas whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous.

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Pawpawsaurus

Pawpawsaurus, meaning "Pawpaw Lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Cretaceous (late Albian) of Tarrant County, Texas, discovered in May 1992.

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Pays de Bray

The Pays de Bray is a small (about 750 km²) natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French departments of the Seine-Maritime and the Oise (historically divided among the Provinces of Normandy and Picardy since 911, now divided among the administrative regions of Upper Normandy and Picardy).

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Penelopognathus

Penelopognathus ("wild duck jaw") is a genus of dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous.

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Phosphorite

Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock which contains high amounts of phosphate minerals.

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Phylloceratina

The Phyllocertina comprise a suborder of ammonoid cephalopods, belonging to the Ammonitida, whose range extends from the Lower Triassic to the Upper Cretaceous.

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Platypterygius

Platypterygius is an ichthyosaur of the family Ophthalmosauridae.

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Plesiosauria

Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and Sauria) or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles (marine Sauropsida), belonging to the Sauropterygia.

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Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George’s County (often shortened to "PG County") is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, bordering the eastern portion of Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 863,420, making it the second-most populous county in Maryland, behind only Montgomery County.

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Probactrosaurus

Probactrosaurus (meaning "before Bactrosaurus") is an early herbivorous hadrosauroid iguanodont dinosaur.

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Pterodaustro

Pterodaustro is a genus of Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America, which lived 105 million years ago.

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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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Purgatoire Formation

The Purgatoire Formation is a geologic formation in Colorado.

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Puzosia

Puzosia is a genus of desmoceratid ammonites, and the type genus for the Puzosiinae, which lived during the middle part of the Cretaceous, from early Aptian to Maastrichtian (125.5 to 70.6 Ma).

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Puzosia (Bhimaites)

Puzosia (Bhimaites) is a desmoceratid ammonite with a subinvolute, mostly smooth, high whorled shell with convex or flat sides and frequent constrictions on the venter.

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Qantassaurus

Qantassaurus is a genus of two-legged, plant-eating ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia about 115 million years ago, when the continent was still partly south of the Antarctic Circle.

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Rugocaudia

Rugocaudia is a potentially dubious extinct genus of basal titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Montana, United States.

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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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Santanadactylus

Santanadactylus (meaning "Santana Formation finger") was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-age Romualdo Member of the Upper Cretaceous Santana Formation, of Barra do Jardim, Araripe Plateau, Ceará Province, Brazil.

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Sarcosuchus

Sarcosuchus (meaning "flesh crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodylians that lived 112 million years ago.

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Sauropelta

Sauropelta (meaning 'lizard shield') is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur that existed in the Early Cretaceous Period of North America.

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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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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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Scapanorhynchus

Scapanorhynchus ("Spade Snout") is an extinct genus of shark that lived from the early Cretaceous until possibly the Miocene if S. subulatus is a mitsukurinid and not a sand shark.

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Scaphites

Scaphites is a genus of heteromorph ammonites belonging to the Scaphitidae family.

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Schloenbachia

Schloenbachia is a genus of ammonoid cephalopods from the Cenomanian stage of the Upper Cretaceous, and type for the Schloenbachiidae, a family within the ammonitid Hoplitoidea.

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Series (stratigraphy)

Series are subdivisions of rock layers based on the age of the rock and formally defined by international conventions of the geological timescale.

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Shamosaurus

Shamosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian stage) deposits of Höövör, Mongolia.

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Siluosaurus

Siluosaurus (meaning "Silu (Chinese for Silk Road, referring to the discovery location) lizard") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Barremian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Xinminbao Group of Gansu, China.

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Silvisaurus

Silvisaurus, from the Latin silva "woodland" and Greek sauros "lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the middle Cretaceous of Kansas.

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Sinornithoides

Sinornithoides (meaning "Chinese bird form") is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaurs containing the single species Sinornithoides youngi.

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Sonneratia

Sonneratia is a genus of plants in the family Lythraceae.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus (meaning "spine lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the upper Albian to upper Turonian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 93.5 million years ago.

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Stage (stratigraphy)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.

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Stegopelta

Stegopelta (meaning "roofed shield") is a genus of armored dinosaur.

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Steropodon

Steropodon galmani was a prehistoric species of monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, that lived about 105 million years ago (mya) in the Lower Cretaceous period.

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Stratigraphic column

A stratigraphic column is a representation used in geology and its subfield of stratigraphy to describe the vertical location of rock units in a particular area.

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Suchomimus

Suchomimus (meaning 'crocodile mimic') is a genus of large theropod dinosaur with a crocodile-like skull that lived between 125–112 million years ago,Holtz, Thomas R. Jr.

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Tataouinea

Tataouinea is a genus of sauropod dinosaur (with a single species, Tataouinea hannibalis) in the subfamily Rebbachisaurinae of Rebbachisauridae which lived in the Early Cretaceous Tunisia.

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Tenontosaurus

Tenontosaurus (meaning "sinew lizard") is a genus of medium- to large-sized ornithopod dinosaur.

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Texasetes

Texasetes (meaning "Texas resident") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur from the late Lower Cretaceous of North America.

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Thalassodromeus

Thalassodromeus is a genus of large pterodactyloid pterosaur found in northeastern Brazil.

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Theiophytalia

Theiophytalia is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur from the lower Cretaceous period (Aptian-Albian stage, about 112 million years ago) of Colorado, USA.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (or, from Greek θηρίον "wild beast" and πούς, ποδός "foot") or theropods are a dinosaur suborder characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs.

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Thrissops

Thrissops is an extinct genus of teleost fish from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Timimus

Timimus is a genus of small coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia.

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Toolebuc Formation

The Toolebuc Formation is a geological formation that extends from Queensland across South Australia and the Northern Territory in Australia, whose strata date back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

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Tupuxuara

Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, toothless pterodactyloid pterosaur.

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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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Ulansuhai Formation

The Ulansuhai Formation is a geological formation in Inner Mongolia, north China.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Utahraptor

Utahraptor (meaning "Utah's predator" or "Utah's thief") is a genus of theropod dinosaurs.

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Utrillas

Utrillas is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain.

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Valanginian

In the geologic timescale, the Valanginian is an age or stage of the Early or Lower Cretaceous.

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Venenosaurus

Venenosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur, named after the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah, United States, where the fossils were discovered by a Denver Museum of Natural History volunteer Tony DiCroce in 1998.

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Winton Formation

The Winton Formation is a Cretaceous formation in central-western Queensland, Australia.

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Wintonotitan

Wintonotitan (meaning "Winton titan") is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from late Albian (Early Cretaceous)-age rocks of Australia.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Xiphactinus

Xiphactinus (from Latin and Greek for "sword-ray") is an extinct genus of large predatory marine bony fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Albian to Maastrichtian).

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Yamaceratops

Yamaceratops is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

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Year

A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.

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Zealandites

Zealandites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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Zephyrosaurus

Zephyrosaurus (meaning "westward wind lizard") is a genus of orodromin ornithopod dinosaur.

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Zhejiangopterus

Zhejiangopterus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from one species, which lived in China during the late Cretaceous Period.

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Zuluscaphites

Zuluscaphites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albian

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