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Fossils of primates from the New World were unknown for many years despite the large quantities of megafauna fossils that had been found by Europeans since the 1700s. In July 1836, a left proximal femur ( UZM 1623) and a right distal humerus (UZM 3530) were collected by Danish paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund , who is commonly hailed as the ...
This was generally accepted until well into the twenty-first century. In 2018, Carpenter concluded from a qualitative anatomical comparison that the species was a basal member of the Rebbachisauridae, and assigned it the new name Maraapunisaurus, after a Southern Ute word maraapuni meaning "huge". [16]
Prehistoric Kingdom is an upcoming construction and management simulation video game developed by Blue Meridian and published by Crytivo. The game was made available under Steam's early access program on April 27, 2022 [1] for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and is also available on the Epic Games Store. [2] A full release of the game is expected ...
Aceratherium was by then a wastebasket taxon; it included several unrelated species of hornless rhinoceros, many of which have since been moved to other genera. [1] [6] Fossil incisors that Pilgrim had previously assigned to the unrelated genus Bugtitherium were later shown to belong to the new species. [7]
A new species from Spain, H. bugarensis, is described in 2013. [14] Two new species from China, H. xinzhuangensis and H. chuanjieensis are named in 2018, and H. houtienensis is considered, [ 15 ] while other species from China and Thailand are no longer part of the genus and requires reassessment. [ 16 ]
The new species was later classified with the name Phoberomys pattersoni in honor of palaeontologist Brian Patterson. [ 2 ] Originally, Phoberomys pattersoni was estimated as being approximately 741 kg based on dimensions of the femur , which at the time made it the largest known species of rodent, living or extinct. [ 3 ]
It was determined to be a new species, and was designated the holotype of a new taxon, Archaeotherium mortoni. Its generic name derives from the Greek αρχαιο ("ancient") and θήριον ("beast"). The type species, A. mortoni, was named after Samuel George Morton, then the president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [3]
Prototaxites / ˌ p r oʊ t oʊ ˈ t æ k s ɪ t iː z / is an extinct genus of terrestrial fungi dating from the Late Silurian until the Late Devonian periods. [1] [2] Prototaxites formed large trunk-like structures up to 1 metre (3 ft) wide, reaching 8 metres (26 ft) in length, [3] made up of interwoven tubes around 50 micrometres (0.0020 in) in diameter, making it by far the largest land ...