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Porcellio hoffmannseggii, commonly called the titan isopod, is a species of woodlouse of the genus Porcellio described in 1833. This very large species is native to the southern Iberian Peninsula , Morocco and the Balearic Islands.
In the modern clade Anurognathidae, Anurognathus is the sister taxon of the clade Batrachognathinae, which contains the species Batrachognathus, Dendrorhynchoides and Jeholopterus. In 2021, a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Xuefang Wei and colleagues recovered Anurognathus within the subfamily Anurognathinae , a subfamily within the family ...
The generic name, "Garrigatitan," is a combination of the Occitan "garriga," meaning "dry thicket", referring to a type of Mediterranean vegetation characterized by drought-resistant shrubs, and the Greek "titan", after the Greek mythological family of giants.
The holotype of Metriacanthosaurus parkeri, specimen OUM J.12144, was discovered in 1871 by W. Parker at Jordan's Cliff, Weymouth, [1] and the specimen includes an incomplete hip, a leg bone, and part of a backbone; the geologist John Phillips briefly commented on the specimen during the same year. [2]
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms.It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Rhamphorhynchus (/ ˌ r æ m f ə ˈ r ɪ ŋ k ə s /, [1] from Ancient Greek rhamphos meaning "beak" and rhynchus meaning "snout") is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period. . Less specialized than contemporary, short-tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus, it had a long tail, stiffened with ligaments, which ended in a characteristic soft-tissue tail va
Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.Its aim is to create a comprehensive open content catalogue of all species; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public.
Illustration. First described in 1973, [3] Shantungosaurus is known from over five incomplete skeletons. Chinese scientist Xing Xu and his colleagues indicate that Shantungosaurus is very similar to and shares many unique characters with Edmontosaurus, forming a node of an Edmontosaurus–Shantungosaurus clade between North America and Asia, based on the new materials recovered in Shandong.