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Sphaerotholus and Synonym (taxonomy)

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Difference between Sphaerotholus and Synonym (taxonomy)

Sphaerotholus vs. Synonym (taxonomy)

Sphaerotholus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the western United States and Canada. 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.

Similarities between Sphaerotholus and Synonym (taxonomy)

Sphaerotholus and Synonym (taxonomy) have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Paleontology, Species, Taxon, Type species.

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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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).

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Sphaerotholus and Synonym (taxonomy) Comparison

Sphaerotholus has 31 relations, while Synonym (taxonomy) has 44. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 5.33% = 4 / (31 + 44).

References

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