• Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution. Alfred...
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    late 1920s, paleontologist Alfred Romer restudied many Dimetrodon specimens and named several new species. In 1940, Romer coauthored a large study with...
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    Lagosuchus (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    The type species Lagosuchus talampayensis was first described by Alfred S. Romer in 1971, who considered it a "pseudosuchian" (then a collection of...
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  • Alfred Romer, who first recognised it in 1956. Recent discoveries in Scotland are beginning to close this gap in palaeontological knowledge. Romer's gap...
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    Alfred Izydor Romer (Römer or Roemer, Belarusian: Альфрэд Ізідор Ромер; 16 May 1832, Vilnius – 24 January 1897, Karalinova, Pastavy Raion) was a Polish-Lithuanian...
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    Sarcopterygii (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    hypothesis", or "desert hypothesis", posited by the American paleontologist Alfred Romer, who believed that limbs and lungs may have evolved from the necessity...
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  • Pius Römer (1880–1945), Lithuanian lawyer Josef “Beppo” Römer (1892–1944), German anti-fascist Freikorps leader and KPD organizer Alfred Romer (1894–1973)...
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    Sphenacodontia (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    Phylum: Chordata Clade: Synapsida Clade: Sphenacomorpha Clade: Sphenacodontia Romer & Price, 1940 Subgroups †Haptodus †Hypselohaptodus †Ianthodon Pantherapsida...
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    taxon containing the carnivorous dinosaurs and their descendants—when Alfred Romer re-classified the Order Saurischia into two suborders, Theropoda and...
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    primary tools for understanding phylogeny, as exemplified by the work of Alfred Romer.[citation needed] Two major concepts of comparative anatomy are: Homologous...
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    Proterogyrinus (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    genus was originally named by renowned vertebrate paleontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1970. A comprehensive redescription was later published by Canadian...
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    eugeneodonts such as Helicoprion. The genus name honors paleontologist Alfred Romer. The body of R. orodontus was similar to that of other caseodontids....
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    Lagerpeton (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    from the Miguel Lillo Institute (PVL) of the University of Tucuman. Alfred Romer named Lagerpeton chanarensis in 1971, based on a complete right hindlimb...
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    Pareidae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Clade: Colubroides Family: Pareidae Romer, 1956 Genera Aplopeltura Asthenodipsas (including Internatus) Pareas Xylophis...
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  • Varanopidae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    formerly areas of North America, Russia, Europe, and South Africa. The authors Romer and Price (1940) discussed the original positioning of Varanopidae within...
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    Heterodontosauridae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    Geranosaurus were recognized as closely related ornithischian dinosaurs. Alfred Romer named Heterodontosauridae in 1966 as a family of ornithischian dinosaurs...
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  • romerogram, after its popularisation by the American palaeontologist Alfred Romer. It represents taxonomic diversity (horizontal width) against geological...
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    Kuehneosauridae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    and Magdalena Borsuk−Białynicka. Draco (genus) "†family Kuehneosauridae Romer 1966". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021. Kligman...
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    Spinthariscope". Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Retrieved 2 May 2013. Alfred Romer (1960). The Restless Atom: The Awakening of Nuclear Physics. Anchor Books...
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    Secodontosaurus (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    with the conical teeth typically found in ophiacodontids. In 1936 A. S. Romer made Williston's proposed generic name official but identified Secodontosaurus...
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    Probainognathidae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    America during the Middle to Late Triassic. The family was established by Alfred Romer in 1973 and includes two genera, Probainognathus from the Chañares Formation...
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    Lewisuchus (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    This is also likely true of an astragalus found alongside the skeleton. Alfred Romer named Lewisuchus as a new genus in 1972, based on the partial skeleton...
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    within classes. In the early 1930s, American vertebrate palaeontologist Alfred Romer (1894–1973) produced an overview, drawing together taxonomic work from...
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  • Nitosaurus (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Synapsida Family: †Nitosauridae Genus: †Nitosaurus Romer, 1937...
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    rock shelters across Morocco and Algeria by paleontologists including Alfred Romer (1928, 1935) and Camille Arambourg (1931). While the existence of numerous...
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  • diagram (often called a Romerogram after the American palaeontologist Alfred Romer) where various spindles branch off from each other, with each spindle...
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    Proterochampsidae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    are adjacent to each other. Proterochampsidae was named in 1966 by A.S. Romer in his book Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edition. The clade was defined...
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    birds. This was followed by Alfred Romer (1933) and subsequent authors through most of the 20th century. According to Romer, the Archaeornithes are characterised...
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    Eothyrididae (category Taxa named by Alfred Romer)
    Paleoherpetology, Part 17A Pelycosauria Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, ISBN 3-89937-032-5 Romer, AS & Price L.I (1940), Review of the Pelycosauria. Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec...
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    This has been sunk as a junior objective synonym of H. armatus. In 1956 Alfred Romer renamed Regnosaurus into Hylaeosaurus northhamptoni. Polacanthus Owen...
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