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| x Law's Diving-goose |
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Law's Diving-goose (Chendytes lawi) was a goose-sized flightless sea duck, once common on the California coast, California Channel Islands, and possibly southern Oregon. It lived in the Pleistocene and survived into the Holocene. It appears to have...
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| x Plesiosaur |
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A plesiosaur (pronounced /ˈpliːsiəˌsɔər/; Greek: plēsios/πλησιος 'near' or 'close to' and sauros/σαυρος 'lizard') was a type of carnivorous aquatic (mostly marine) reptile. After their discovery, plesiosaurs were somewhat fancifully said to have...
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| x Stegosauria |
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Known colloquially as stegosaurs, the Stegosauria are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Periods, being found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America and China. Their...
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| x Passenger Pigeon |
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Holocene |
The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once common in North America. It lived in enormous migratory flocks - sometimes containing more than two billion birds - that could stretch one mile (1.6...
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| x Dodo |
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Holocene |
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about 20 kilograms (44 lb), living on fruit and nesting on the ground.
The dodo...
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| x Carolina Parakeet |
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Holocene |
The Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only parrot species native to the eastern United States. It was found from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf of Mexico, and lived in old forests along rivers. It was the only species at the time...
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| x Deinotherium |
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Deinotherium ("terrible beast"), also called the Hoe tusker, was a gigantic prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene and continued until the Early Pleistocene. During that time it changed very little. In life...
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| x Indricotherium |
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Indricotherium is a genus of extinct mammals that lived in Asia during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (37-32 million years ago).
Indricotherium is the largest land mammal known, rivaling in size with the...
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| x Mammuthus sungari |
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Mammuthus sungari, sometimes called the Songhua River Mammoth evolved from smaller Siberian mammoths and occurred in Northern China during the middle Pleistocene (about 280,000 years ago). It survived until the beginning of the Late Pleistocene.
The...
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| x Elasmotherium |
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Elasmotherium ("Thin Plate Beast") is an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros endemic to Asia during the Pliocene through Pleistocene living from 3.6 mya—126,000 existing for approximately 3.5 million years.
Elasmotherium stood, on average, 2.7 metres ...
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| x Thylacoleonidae |
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Thylacoleonidae is a family of extinct meat-eating marsupials from Australia, referred to as marsupial lions. The best known is Thylacoleo carnifex, also called the Marsupial Lion. The clade ranged from the Late Oligocene to the Pleistocene, with...
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| x Marsupial lion |
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Thylacoleo ("Pouch Lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the late Pleistocene (2 million to 46 thousand years ago). Some of these "marsupial lions" were the largest mammalian predators...
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| x Marsupial Lion |
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The Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex, the "murderous (or 'meat-cutting') marsupial lion" from thylakos - pouch, leo - lion, carnifex - murderer, tormentor, 'butcher') is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial mammal that lived in Australia...
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| x Megalodon |
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The megalodon (pronounced /ˈmɛɡələdɒn/ MEG-ə-lə-don, "big tooth" in Greek, from μέγας and ὀδούς) was a giant shark that lived in prehistoric times during the late Oligocene epoch and Neogene period, and was a super-predator.
It was by far the...
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| x Megalania |
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Megalania ("great roamer"; Greek Μέγας "great" + ἀλαίνω "roam") is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard. It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40...
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| x Moa |
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Holocene |
The moa were ten species (in six genera) of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about 3.7 m (12 ft) in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about 230 kg (510...
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| x Giant moa |
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The giant moa (Dinornis) is an extinct genus of ratite birds belonging to the moa family. Like all ratites it was a member of the Struthioniformes Order. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a...
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| x Dinornis robustus | |||
| x Arianites |
Arianites is an extinct genus of Cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.
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| x Struthio wimani |
Struthio wimani is an extinct species of ratite bird from the Pliocene of China.
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| x Arabian Ostrich |
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Miocene |
The Middle Eastern Ostrich or Arabian Ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus) is an extinct subspecies of the ostrich which once lived on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Near East. Its range seems to have been continuous in prehistoric times, but with...
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| x Struthio linxiaensis |
Struthio linxiaensis is an extinct species of ratite from the Miocene of China.
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| x Haast's Eagle |
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Holocene |
Haast's Eagle (Harpagornis moorei), was a massive, now-extinct eagle that once lived on the South Island of New Zealand. It is the largest eagle known to have existed, and is sometimes known as the Giant Eagle. Its prey mainly consisted of...
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| x Adzebill |
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Holocene |
The adzebills (genus Aptornis) were two closely related bird species, the North Island Adzebill, Aptornis otidiformis, and the South Island Adzebill, Aptornis defossor, of the extinct family Aptornithidae. The family was endemic to New Zealand.
They...
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| x Mekosuchinae |
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Holocene |
Mekosuchinae was a subfamily of crocodiles from Australia and the South Pacific that have now become extinct. They first appear in the fossil record in the Eocene in Australia, and survived until the Pleistocene in Australia and until the arrival of...
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| x Moa-nalo |
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Holocene |
Moa-nalo are a group of extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on the larger Hawaiian Islands, except Hawaiʻi itself, in the Pacific. They were the major herbivores on most of these islands for the last 3 million years or so, until they...
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| x Palaeopropithecus ingens |
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Holocene |
The large sloth lemurs (genus Palaeopropithecus) were one of three recently extinct genera of sloth lemur that was found on Madagascar, and were closely related to living lemur species found there today. There were three known species,...
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| x Lesser Megalapteryx |
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Holocene |
The Lesser Megalapteryx or Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus) was a species of ratite bird endemic to New Zealand. Ratites are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. The origin of these birds is becoming...
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| x Mauritian Duck | Holocene |
The Mauritian Duck or Sauzier's Teal (Anas theodori) is an extinct dabbling duck that formerly occurred on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion. It was a small teal of the Anas gibberifrons superspecies of the Anas subgenus Nettion. Its closest...
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| x Kangaroo Island Emu |
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Holocene |
Kangaroo Island Emu or Dwarf Emu (Dromaius baudinianus) is an extinct member of the bird family Casuariidae. It was restricted to Kangaroo Island, South Australia. It differed from the mainland Emu mainly in its smaller size. The species became...
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| x Réunion Shelduck | Holocene |
The Réunion Shelduck or Kervazo's Egyptian Goose (Alopochen kervazoi) is an extinct species of goose from Réunion. It was a close relative of the Egyptian Goose and was about the same size. There is only one description remaining, that of Dubois...
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| x King Island Emu |
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Holocene |
The King Island Emu or Black Emu (Dromaius ater) is an extinct ratite species which occurred on King Island between mainland Australia and Tasmania. It is known from subfossil bones and one museum specimen.
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot first...
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| x Mariana Mallard |
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Holocene |
The Mariana Mallard (Anas oustaleti) or Oustalet's Gray Duck is an extinct species of duck of the genus Anas that was endemic to the Mariana Islands. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Mallard or the Pacific Black Duck, or (erroneously)...
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| x Mauritian Shelduck | Holocene |
The Mauritian Shelduck (Alopochen mauritianus) is an extinct species of goose from Mauritius. It was a close relative of the Egyptian Goose. Known from one or two subfossil carpometacarpus bones and a few descriptions, this bird was about the size...
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| x Amsterdam Island Duck | Holocene |
The Amsterdam Island Duck (Anas marecula) was a species of waterfowl in the Anatidae family. It was endemic to Île Amsterdam (Amsterdam Island), French Southern Territories. This flightless species is only known from bones and was presumably driven...
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| x Ornithopoda |
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Late Cretaceous |
Ornithopods (pronounced /ɔrˈnɪθɵpɒd/) are a group of bird-hipped dinosaurs that started out as small, bipedal running grazers, and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world,...
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| x Velociraptor |
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Late Cretaceous |
Velociraptor (pronounced /vɨˈlɒsɨræptər/; meaning 'swift seizer') is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 mya (million years ago) during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Only two species are...
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| x Pteranodontidae |
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Cretaceous |
The Pteranodontidae are a family of large pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Period of North America.
The family was named in 1876 by Othniel Charles Marsh. Pteranodontids had a distinctive, elongated crest jutting from the rear of the head (most famously...
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| x Hadrosaurid |
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Late Cretaceous |
Hadrosaurids or duck-billed dinosaurs are members of the family Hadrosauridae, and include ornithopods such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. They were common herbivores in the Upper Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia, Europe and North...
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| x Lambeosaurinae | |||
| x Iguanodont |
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Late Cretaceous |
Iguanodonts were herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the mid-Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Some members include Camptosaurus, Callovosaurus, Iguanodon, and Ouranosaurus. Iguanodonts were one of the first groups of dinosaurs to be found. They are...
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| x Velociraptor mongoliensis | |||
| x Velociraptor osmolskae | |||
| x Yingshanosaurus | Late Jurassic |
"Yingshanosaurus" is the informal name given to a genus of quadrupedal dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, around 150 million years ago. It was a stegosaurian which lived in what is now China. The suggested "type species", coined by Zhou in 1984, is ...
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| x Achillobator |
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Achillobator (pronounced /əˌkɪlɵˈbeɪtɔr/; "Achilles' warrior/hero") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia, about 90 million years ago. It was probably an active bipedal predator,...
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| x Paramylodon |
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Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, endemic to North America living from around ~4.9 Mya—11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 4...
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| x Harlan's ground sloth | |||
| x Mosasaur |
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Late Cretaceous |
Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river', and Greek sauros meaning 'lizard') were serpentine marine reptiles. The first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1764. These ferocious marine...
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| x Sauropoda |
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Sauropoda (pronounced /sɔːˈrɒpədə/), or the sauropods (/ˈsɔrɵpɒd/), are an infraorder or clade of saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. They are notable for the enormous sizes attained by some species, and the group includes many of the largest...
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| x Ornithischia |
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Ornithischia (pronounced /ɔrnɪˈθɪskiə/ or-ni-THISS-kee-ə) or Predentata is an extinct order of beaked, herbivorous dinosaurs. The name ornithischia is derived from the Greek ornitheos (ορνιθειος) meaning 'of a bird' and ischion (ισχιον) meaning 'hip...
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| x Marginocephalia |
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Marginocephalia ("fringed heads") is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the thick-skulled pachycephalosaurids, and horned ceratopsians. They were all herbivores, walking on two or four legs, and are characterized by a bony ridge or...
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| x Saurischia |
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Saurischia (pronounced /sɔːˈrɪskiə/ saw-RIS-kee-ə, from the Greek sauros (σαυρος) meaning 'lizard' and ischion (ισχιον) meaning 'hip joint') is one of the two orders, or basic divisions, of dinosaurs. In 1888, Harry Seeley classified dinosaurs into...
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| x Heterodontosauriformes |
Heterodontosauriformes are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs within the order Ornithischia. The taxon was named by Xu et al. in 2006 to group the suborder Marginocephalia with the family Heterodontosauridae (previously classified as ornithopods),...
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| x Cerapoda |
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Cerapoda (pronounced /siːˈrɒpədə/) is a clade or suborder of the order Ornithischia. They are the sister group of the Thyreophora within the clade Genasauria. Cerapods are united by having a thicker layer of enamel on the inside of their lower teeth...
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| x Pachycephalosauria |
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Late Cretaceous |
Pachycephalosauria (pronounced /ˌpækɨˌsɛfəlɵˈsɔriə/, Greek for 'thick headed lizards') is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs. Well-known genera include Pachycephalosaurus, Stegoceras, Stygimoloch, and Dracorex. Most lived during the Late Cretaceous...
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| x Pachycephalosauridae | |||
| x Ceratopsia |
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Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (pronounced /ˌsɛrəˈtɒpsiə/, /ˌsɛrəˈtoʊpiə/; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived in what are now North America and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived...
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| x Thyreophora |
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Late Cretaceous |
The Thyreophora ("shield bearers", often known simply as "armored dinosaurs" - Greek: θυρεος, a large oblong shield, like a door and φορεω, I carry) were a subgroup of the ornithischian dinosaurs. They were armored herbivorous dinosaurs, living from...
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| x Secernosaurus | Late Cretaceous |
Secernosaurus (meaning "severed lizard") is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur. Secernosaurus was a hadrosaur, a "duck-billed" dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Argentina.
The type species is Secernosaurus...
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| x Marquesas Swamphen | Holocene |
Marquesas Swamphen (Porphyrio paepae) is a presumably extinct species of swamphen from the Marquesas Islands. It was originally described from 600 year old subfossil remains from Tahuata and Hiva Oa. It may have survived to around 1900; in the lower...
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