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    Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the...
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    Megalochelys (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
    of the late Hugh Falconer: With a Biographical Sketch of the Author Compiled and Edited by Charles Murchison. Rob. Hardwicke, 1868. Falconer, H., Cautley...
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    Palaeoloxodon namadicus (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
    Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidae Genus: †Palaeoloxodon Species: †P. namadicus Binomial name †Palaeoloxodon namadicus (Falconer & Cautley, 1846)...
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  • sharp criticism from two of Lyell's younger colleagues – paleontologist Hugh Falconer and archaeologist John Lubbock – who felt that Lyell had used their...
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    Columbian mammoth (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
    naturalist Hugh Falconer, who named the species Elephas columbi after the explorer Christopher Columbus. The animal was brought to Falconer's attention...
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    studied by the Survey's supervisor, Hugh Falconer, who concluded that they were reptilian bones. After Falconer's death, in 1877, Richard Lydekker described...
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    mammoths. The species was named in 1847 by British palaeontologists Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley as Elephas (Euelephas) antiquus. The type specimen...
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    plant native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, northern Pakistan and Kashmir. Hugh Falconer noted that this was the source of asafoetida in Central Asia. Although...
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    cattle in 1825, published in 1827. The name Bos namadicus was used by Hugh Falconer in 1859 for cattle fossils found in Nerbudda deposits. Bos primigenius...
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    doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.10.022. Falconer, Hugh (1868). Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer: Fauna antiqua sivalensis. R. Hardwicke...
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    Stegodon (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
    Class: Mammalia Order: Proboscidea Family: †Stegodontidae Genus: †Stegodon Falconer, 1847 Species †S. aurorae (Matsumoto, 1918) †S. elephantoides (Clift, 1828)...
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    the smallest molars selected from the material originally ascribed by Hugh Falconer (for whom the species is named) to Palaeoloxodon melitensis for the...
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    Mammuthus armeniacus , named by Hugh Falconer in 1857 or Mammuthus trogontherii, named by Hans Pohlig in 1885. Falconer described M. armeniacus based on...
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    Canals. Cautley is also known for his research in collaboration with Hugh Falconer on fossils found in India, particularly those found in the Siwalik Hills...
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  • doctor Charles Hugh Branston Faulkner, known as Hugh, founding director of Help the Aged Hugh Falconer, Scottish botanist and geologist Faulkner (surname)...
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  • Look up falconer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Falconer is a Scottish surname, either a sept of Clan Keith or a clan on its own, having as crest...
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    according to local conditions. The genus was formally described by Hugh Falconer in 1868. Eucladoceros is widely agreed to a be member of the tribe Cervini...
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    suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Plagiaulacidae. The genus was named by Hugh Falconer in 1857, and was the first described multituberculate species. Fossil...
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    Enhydriodon (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
    related remains unresolved. Enhydriodon was first erected in 1868 by Hugh Falconer based on several crania from Siwalik Hills, India that he attributed...
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    throughout England, France and Belgium. In 1858, Prestwich was persuaded by Hugh Falconer to visit Abbeville, where Boucher de Perthes had claimed to have found...
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    Pg N ↓ Teeth of Elephas hysudricus from the species description by Hugh Falconer and Proby Thomas Cautley Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota...
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    authenticity of the flint implements; but it was not until 1858 that Hugh Falconer saw the collection at Abbeville and induced Sir Joseph Prestwich in...
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    humans, including Neanderthals. The species was originally described by Hugh Falconer in 1859 based on remains found in cave deposits in Glamorganshire, south...
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    1835 Gideon Mantell 1836 Louis Agassiz 1837 Proby Thomas Cautley 1837 Hugh Falconer 1838 Richard Owen 1839 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 1840 André Hubert...
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    conservationist and author. He gives his name to the Fraser Darling effect. Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist...
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  • Alvey Darwin (brother) Thomas Davidson William Darwin Fox (cousin) Hugh Falconer Asa Gray J. S. Henslow Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet...
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  • Kinloss, Scotland on 19 December 1832. Botanist and paleontologist Hugh Falconer was her uncle and they corresponded extensively. She was sent away to...
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    Francis Crick Thomas Davidson Anton Dohrn Franciscus Donders George Eliot Hugh Falconer Frederic William Farrar Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer John Fiske Robert...
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    Asian Palaeoloxodon namadicus, were named by British paleontologists Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley in 1846-47. Prior to the description of the genus...
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    established (as a distinct genus, and later down-ranked to subgenus) by Hugh Falconer in 1847. Hence, subgenus Merwia is a mere synonym of Narthex, but Merwia...
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