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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Oligomyrmex antiqua [2] Comb nov jr synonym (Mayr, 1868) Middle Eocene Baltic amber Europe: Fossil myrmicine ant, moved to Carebara antiqua in 2004 Carebara antiqua: Sphecomyrminae [3] Subfam. Gen. et sp. nov Valid Wilson & Carpenter: Turonian: New Jersey Amber USA: Basal most ant ...
Different researchers use either name to refer to the same animal. "Eugongbusaurus" wucaiwanensis: Coined for a referred species of Gongbusaurus. This name is said to have been leaked accidentally. "Futabasaurus": A supposed tyrannosaur from Japan. If formally described, it would require a new name as Futabasaurus has already been used for a ...
The Haenam-gun site is most famous for the footprints of giant dinosaurs discovered there. This site, the first in Asia, also preserves the footprints of webbed-feet birds that once walked along the shores. This site is South Korean Natural Monument No. 394.
In 1966 Rozhdestvensky also named a second species, Probactrosaurus alashanicus, based on fragmentary material. Its specific name refers to the Alxa League . In 2002 David B. Norman published a revision of the genus, in which he reported the holotype specimen of P. alashanicus , the back of a skull, had been lost after being dispatched from ...
This list of nicknamed dinosaur fossils is a list of fossil non-avian dinosaur specimens given informal names or nicknames, in addition to their institutional catalogue numbers. It excludes informal appellations that are purely descriptive (e.g., "the Fighting Dinosaurs", "the Trachodon Mummy").
Mounted skeletons of Tyrannosaurus (left) and Apatosaurus (right) at the AMNH. Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research.
Pukyongosaurus (meaning "Pukyong lizard", after the Pukyong National University [1]) is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur that lived in South Korea during the Early Cretaceous Period (Aptian - Albian). It may have been closely related to Euhelopus, and is known from a series of vertebrae in the neck and back.
While the dinosaurs' modern-day surviving avian lineage (birds) are generally small due to the constraints of flight, many prehistoric dinosaurs (non-avian and avian) were large-bodied—the largest sauropod dinosaurs are estimated to have reached lengths of 39.7 meters (130 feet) and heights of 18 m (59 ft) and were the largest land animals of ...