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    Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy...
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    ricardoensis, Osteoborus validus, and Tephrocyon mortifer, and was named by Joseph Leidy as a subgenus. It was recombined as Aelurodon haydeni by Scott and Osborn...
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    Pectinatella magnifica (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    Kyiv Van Der Waaij, Michiel (October 19, 2011). "Pectinatella magnifica (Leidy 1851)". Bryozoans.nl - Zoetwater Bryozoen (mosdiertjes) in Nederland. "Pectinatella...
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    Ferdinand V. Hayden, Isaac Lea, William W. Jefferis, John Lawrence LeConte, Joseph Leidy, Samuel George Morton, George Ord, and James Rehn were members. Corresponding...
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    Bison antiquus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    complete horn core. The fossil (ANSP 12990) was briefly described by Joseph Leidy in 1852. Although the original fossils were fragmentary, a complete skull...
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    proper description until 1853 when Joseph Leidy named the fragmentary specimen (ANSP 12546) Felis atrox ("savage cat"). Leidy named another species in 1873...
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    Foulke in 1858. The dinosaur was later named Hadrosaurus foulkii by Joseph Leidy. The site, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994, is now a...
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    The Dr. Joseph Leidy House is a historic residence located at 1319 Locust Street between S. 13th and S. Juniper Streets in the Washington Square West neighborhood...
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  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was named after US palaeontologist Joseph Leidy. The award was established in 1923 to recognize excellence in "publications...
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    Megacerops (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    existing for approximately 4.1 million years. Megacerops was named by Leidy (1870). Its type species is Megacerops coloradensis. It was synonymized...
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    Archaeotherium was named by Joseph Leidy (1850).[1] Its type is Archaeotherium mortoni. It was synonymized subjectively with Entelodon by Leidy (1853) and synonymized...
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    palæontological discoveries." In 1848, a study On the fossil horses of America by Joseph Leidy systematically examined Pleistocene horse fossils from various collections...
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    Hadrosaurus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    as the Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy site, is now a National Historic Landmark. Foulke contacted paleontologist Joseph Leidy, and together they recovered...
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    Xiphactinus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    sic Vavrek, M.J.; Murray, A.M.; Bell, P.R. (2016). "Xiphactinus audax Leidy, 1870 from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian to Campanian) of northwestern...
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    Uintatherium (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    parietal horn, and fragmentary postcrania. The following year, Marsh and Joseph Leidy collected in the Eocene Beds near Fort Bridger while Edward Cope, Marsh's...
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    Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden on the Platte River of Nebraska and sent to Joseph Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who named them Felis...
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    to them, for they still continue on Singing till they die. In 1851, Joseph Leidy described and illustrated the fungus that had apparently caused the abdominal...
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    the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. American paleontologist Joseph Leidy obtained most of his fossil specimens from Hayden. Hayden Valley in Yellowstone...
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    Troodon (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    diet. The name was originally spelled Troödon (with a diaeresis) by Joseph Leidy in 1856, which was officially amended to its current status by Sauvage...
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    Anthracotheriidae (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    Suborder: Whippomorpha Superfamily: Hippopotamoidea Family: †Anthracotheriidae Leidy, 1869 Genera and subfamilies †Anthracohyus †Anthracothema †Bugtitherium...
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    Trachodon (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    ceratopsids (their teeth have a distinctive double root), and its describer, Joseph Leidy, came to recognize the difference and suggested limiting the genus to...
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    internationally known guests, including biologists Thomas Huxley and Joseph Leidy, astronomer Samuel Langley, scientist Lord Kelvin, Senators James Blaine...
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    infection was unclear at the time. A decade later, American scientist Joseph Leidy pinpointed undercooked meat as the primary vector for the parasite, and...
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    Amoeba proteus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    Friedrich Müller referred to it as Proteus diffluens in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name Amoeba proteus to describe Rösel's Proteus...
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    Antrodemus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    valens, first described and named as a species of Poekilopleuron by Joseph Leidy in 1870. The first described fossil specimen was a bone obtained secondhand...
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    Camelops (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
    Subfamily: Camelinae Tribe: Camelini Genus: †Camelops Leidy, 1854 Species †C. kansanus Leidy, 1854 †C. hesternus Leidy, 1873 (type) †C. minidokae Hay, 1927...
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  • Leidy is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: surname Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), American paleontologist Paul Leidy (1813–1877)...
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    obtained by the geologist Joseph Granville Norwood from an Evansville collector, Francis A. Linck. The paleontologist Joseph Leidy determined that the specimen...
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    William White, applying a bandage to the patient; Dr. Joseph Leidy (nephew of paleontologist Joseph Leidy), taking the patient's pulse; and Dr. Ellwood R....
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    Paleogene fauna of North America, as interpreted by paleontologists Joseph Leidy, Edward Drinker Cope, and Othniel Charles Marsh, aided understanding...
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