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Professor Othniel Charles Marsh had
noted that the name
Megadactylus had been
preoccupied by
Megadactylus Fitzinger 1843, a
subgenus of the
lizard genus Stellio...
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related to Cetiosaurus, Bothriospondylus, Ornithopsis,
Anchisaurus (
Megadactylus), and Pneumatosteus, but didn’t name a
group for
these taxa
until the...
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Maxakalisaurus Mbiresaurus Medusaceratops "Megacervixosaurus" –
nomen nudum "
Megadactylus" –
preoccupied name, now
known as
Anchisaurus "Megadontosaurus" – nomen...
- Cope
demonstrated that it was a dinosaur, and
likely closely related to
Megadactylus from the Tri****ic of M****achusetts. Cope
chose to name two new species...
- in 1929 with the name of
Megadactylus giganteus, with
incomplete specimen BSPG 1929 II 34,
however genus name
Megadactylus was
already used for synonym...
- Woodward, 1902
Rhamphorhynchus kokeni Plieninger, 1907
Rhamphorhynchus megadactylus Koenigswald, 1931
Rhamphorhynchus carnegiei Koh, 1937 ’’Formations found...
- Sauropodomorpha):
usage conserved by
designation of a
neotype for its type
species Megadactylus polyzelus Hitch****, 1865",
Bulletin of
Zoological Nomenclature 72(2):...
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earliest dinosaurs discovered in
North America and the
United States,
Megadactylus polyzelus.
Later it was
reclassified as the type
specimen of Anchisaurus...
- Schools. He
named one of the
earliest dinosaurs discovered in America,
Megadactylus polyzelus.
Later it was
reclassified as the type
specimen of Anchisaurus...
- name. In England, Sir
Richard Owen
examined the
fossils and
named them
Megadactylus polyzelus. M****achusetts
paleontology saw
major events occur early in...
