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Phlegethontia longissima
Phlegethontia longissima (Fritsch, 1825)AmphibiaLepospondyliAistopodaPhlegethontidae Upper CarboniferousKladno Fm (Westphalian D, Moscovian)Czech Republicalso present in the Carbondale Fm of Mazon...
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Brachydectes newberryi
Brachydectes newberryi Cope, 1868AmphibiaLepospondyliLysorophiaCocytinidaeUpper CarboniferousUpper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Gr, Middle Pennsylvanian, Westphalian DLinton, OhioLength: 50 cmBrachydectes...
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Tuditanus punctulatus
Tuditanus punctulatus Cope, 1874AmphibiaMicrosauriaTuditanomorphaTuditanidae Upper CarboniferousUpper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Gr, Westphalian DLinton, OhioLength: 25 cmThis North American Microsaur...
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Sauropleura pectinata
Sauropleura pectinata Cope, 1868AmphibiaLepospondyliNectrideaUrocordylidae Upper CarboniferousUpper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Gr, Westphalian DLinton, OhioLength: 35 cmThis aquatic amphibian was one of...
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Aquilops americanus
Aquilops americanus Farke et al., 2014DinosauriaOrnithischiaCerapodaCeratopsia Early CretaceousCloverly Fm (Albian)Montana, USLength: 60 cmAquilops ("eagle face") is the most basal ceratopsian from...
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2014 in Paleontology
December 29, 2014All images on this site are copyrighted to Nobu Tamura under a Creative Commons 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license meaning that you are free to use them for non commercial purposes...
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Haootia quadriformis
Haootia quadriformis Liu et al., 2014CnidariaLate EdiacaranFermeuse FmNewfoundland, CanadaLength: 5 cmHaootia, a cnidarian polyp, has been identified as the earliest animal discovered to show muscle...
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Kryptodrakon progenitor
Kryptodrakon progenitor Andres et al., 2014PterosauriaCaelidraconesPterodactyloidea Late JurassicShishugou Fm (Callovian-Oxfordian)Xinjiang, ChinaWingspan: 1.5 mKnown from a partial fragmentary...
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Metaspriggina walcotti
Metaspriggina walcotti Simonetta and Insom, 1993ChordataCraniata Middle CambrianBurgess ShaleBritish Columbia, CanadaLength: 10 cmNew specimens discovered in 2012 at the marble Canyon bed in Kootenay...
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Archaeothyris florensis
Archaeothyris florensis Reisz, 1972Synapsida"Pelycosauria"Ophiacodontidae Late CarboniferousMorien Group, Westphalian CNova Scotia, CanadaLength: 50 cmThe ancestral ophiacodontid type can be seen in...
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Ophiacodon mirus
Ophiacodon mirus Marsh, 1878Synapsida"Pelycosauria"Ophiacodontidae Early PermianAbo/Cutler FmNew Mexico, USLength: 2.5 mBody proportions reached its extremes with Ophiacodon, the best known and most...
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Varanosaurus acutirostris
Varanosaurus acutirostris Broili, 1904Synapsida"Pelycosauria"Ophiacodontidae Early PermianBelle Plains Fm (Artinskian)Texas, USLength: 1.2 mVaranosaurus acutirostris from the Early Permian of Texas,...
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Gomphotherium angustidens
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister, 1837MammaliaEutheriaAfrotheriaProboscideaGomphotheriidaeMioceneEurope, North Africa and Middle EastLength: 3 mUnlike modern elephants, Gomphotherium had four...
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Platybelodon grangeri
Platybelodon grangeri Osborn, 1929MammaliaEutheriaAfrotheriaProboscideaGomphotheriidaeLate MioceneMongolia.Length: 3.5 mWear patterns of the teeth suggest that this shovel-tusked elephant used its...
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Anancus arvernensis
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet & Jobert, 1928)MammaliaEutheriaAfrotheriaProboscideaGomphotheriidaeLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneEuropeLength: 5 mAnancus was characterized by its extremely long...
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Kvabebihyrax kachethicus
Kvabebihyrax kachethicus Gabunia & Vekua, 1966MammaliaEutheriaAfrotheriaHyracoideaPliohyracidaePliohyracinae Late PlioceneGeorgiaLength: 1.6 mHyraxes are today only represented by four small...
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Dickinsonia costata
Dickinsonia costata Sprigg, 1947ProarticulataDipleurozoaDickinsoniidaeEdiacaranEdiacaraAustraliaOne of the most famous fossils of the Ediacara biota is Dickinsonia, first described by Sprigg in 1947....
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Jianghanichthys hubeiensis
Jianghanichthys hubeiensis (Lei, 1977)ActinopterygiiCypriniformesCobitoidea CastotomidaeEoceneSongzi Fm Hubei, ChinaLength:10 cmFormerly described as a species of the extant genus Osteochilus,...
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Megatherium americanum
Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796MammaliaEutheriaXenarthra PilosaMegatheriidae PleistoceneSouth AmericaLength: 6 mAs big as an elephant, Megatherium is the largest known ground sloth. It was normally...
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Pharyngolepis oblongus
Pharyngolepis oblongus Kiaer, 1911AgnathaAnaspidaLate SilurianWenlock Ringerike, NorwayLength:15 cmThis jawless fish from the Silurian of Norway, did not have pectoral fins, but a pair of spines,...
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