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Thecodontia (meaning 'socket-teeth'), now considered an obsolete taxonomic grouping, was formerly used to describe a diverse "order" of early archosaurian reptiles that first appeared in the latest Permian period and flourished until the end of the Triassic period. All of them were built somewhat like crocodiles but with shorter skulls, more ...
This did not change when Richard Owen coined the term Dinosauria in 1842, because Owen did not recognise Thecodontosaurus as a dinosaur; in 1865, he assigned it to the Thecodontia. It was not until 1870 that Thomas Huxley became the first person to understand that it was a dinosaur, though referring it incorrectly to the Scelidosauridae. [18]
Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp (pen names, Filia Ecclesia and M. E. Beauchamp; 14 June 1825 – 1903) was an English-born American educator and author. She wrote about the Haudenosaunee , and served as secretary for her younger brother, William Martin Beauchamp , the ethnologist. [ 1 ]
Thecodont dentition is a morphological arrangement in which the base of the tooth is completely enclosed in a deep socket of bone, as seen in crocodilians, dinosaurs and mammals, and opposed to acrodont and pleurodont dentition seen in squamate reptiles. [1]
Mary Elizabeth Barber (5 January 1818 – 4 September 1899) was a pioneering British-born amateur scientist of the nineteenth century. Without formal education, she made a name for herself in botany , ornithology and entomology .
Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel (1585 – 3 June [O.S. 24 May] 1654), née Lady Alethea Talbot (pronounced "Al-EE-thia" [1]), was a famous patron and art collector, and one of England's first published female scientists.
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate: 1. Archduchess Marie Elisabeth of Austria: 12. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor: 6. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor: 13. Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg: 3. Maria Theresa of Austria: 14. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: 7. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick: 15. Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen
The family of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. From left to right: The Duke of Marlborough, Elizabeth, Mary, The Duchess of Marlborough, Henrietta, Anne and John. Elizabeth Churchill was born on 15 March 1687. [a] She was the fourth daughter and fifth child of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah Jenyns.