• Robert Julien Hoffstetter (11 June 1908 in Fargniers – 29 December 1999 in Gennevilliers) was a French taxonomist and herpetologist who was influential...
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    synonymous infraorder names, Simiiformes and Anthropoidea. According to Robert Hoffstetter (and supported by Colin Groves), the term Simiiformes has priority...
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    Madtsoiidae (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    Madtsoiidae was first classified as a subfamily of Boidae, Madtsoiinae, in Hoffstetter (1961). Further study and new finds allowed ranking the group as a distinct...
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    Adapiformes (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Infraorder: †Adapiformes Hoffstetter, 1977 Superfamily: †Adapoidea Trouessart, 1879 Families †Notharctidae...
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    Bolyeriidae (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    Vol. 7. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Group. ISBN 0-7876-5783-2. Hoffstetter R (1946). "Remarques sur la classification des Ophidiens et particulièrement...
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    Equus neogeus (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    quascirev.2019.106025. S2CID 210240458. Anthony D. Barnosky; Paul L. Koch; Robert S. Feranec; Scott L. Wing; Alan B. Shabel (2004). "Assessing the Causes...
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  • Paleocene of Bolivia; the generic name honours French taxonomist Robert Hoffstetter "in recognition of his contributions to knowledge of mammalian evolution...
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    Panochthus, and the Villanueva individual was designated the lectotype by Robert Hoffstetter in 1955. The Las Averias individual consists of a carapace that was...
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  • Python europaeus were first reported in 1958 by French herpetologist Robert Hoffstetter, decades before the species was named, who published that python fossils...
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    Lexovisaurus (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    indicated by Marsh in the 1870s. In 1957 the French palaeontologist Robert Hoffstetter created a separate genus for the species: Lexovisaurus. The generic...
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    American YouTuber and streamer Robert Hoffstetter (1908–1999), French taxonomist and herpetologist Roman Hoffstetter or Hofstetter (1742–1815), German...
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    Albanerpeton, the type genus of the family was first named by Estes and Robert Hoffstetter in 1976 for the species of A. inexpectatum described from a large...
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  • Madatyphlops cariei (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    Madatyphlops cariei, commonly known as Hoffstetter’s blind snake, is an extinct blind snake species which was endemic to Mauritius. It is named for Paul...
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  • Eunectes stirtoni (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    Eunectes beniensis Eunectes deschauenseei Green anaconda Yellow anaconda Hoffstetter, R.; J. C. Rage (1977). "Le gisement de vertébrés miocènes de La Venta...
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    recovered at Quebrada Callihuaico near Quito a year earlier. In 1950, Robert Hoffstetter used the right and left humeri of the Quebrada Chalán skeleton to...
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    century Dacentrurus was usually assigned to the Stegosauridae. In 1957, Robert Hoffstetter thought that Dacentrurus was more derived than Lexovisaurus. In 1969...
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    Yauca which is near where the species was found. In 1968, taxonomist Robert Hoffstetter placed undescribed sloth remains into the family Megatheriidae, possibly...
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    ("near slothful beast", due to its similarity to Nothrotherium) by Robert Hoffstetter during a study of fossil sloths. N. texanus was recombined into the...
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    carolinese was unearthed from. The following year, French taxonomist Robert Hoffstetter introduced the genus Schaubia for Samuel Schaub's Megatherium rusconii...
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    Pseudoprepotherium (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    term Pseudoprepotherium was scientifically introduced in 1961 by Robert Hoffstetter. He mentioned them in a publication of a skeletal description of Planops...
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  • Ranger), heart attack. Mike Thresher, 68, English football player. Robert Hoffstetter, 91, French taxonomist and herpetologist. Edward Hollamby, 78, English...
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  • Hoese Hoffmannsegg – Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849) HoffstetterRobert Hoffstetter (fl. 19th century) Holbrook – John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871)...
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    subsequent full inclusion of Paramylodon into the genus, accomplished by Robert Hoffstetter in 1952, Glossotherium was among the few sloth forms that occurred...
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  • Branisella (category Taxa named by Robert Hoffstetter)
    by the paleontologist Leonardo Branisa, and it was named after him by Hoffstetter, the scientist who first described and classified it in 1969. Morphologically...
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  • Ronald Heyer [fr] Richard Highton David Hillis Richard L. Hoffman Robert Hoffstetter Alphonse Richard Hoge [fr] John Hogg John Edwards Holbrook J. Alan...
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    and Bolivia. Another Hoplophorus species, H. echazui, was named by Robert Hoffstetter based on the Bolivian fossils, but its validity is uncertain. Additional...
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    "Cabinet of Natural Sciences" of the Central University. Later, in 1946, Robert Hoffstetter and Gustavo Orcés founded the Department of Biology at the National...
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    Northwestern Africa (Algeria, Morocco & Sudan) that was first described by Robert Hoffstetter in 1959. Two species are known: the type species, L. defrennei from...
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    Based on comparison of the heel bone with that of Megalonyx, in 1954 Robert Hoffstetter considered that the calcaneum came from an unusual member of the family...
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    Vertebrates. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60, 1999. S. 87–100. Robert Hoffstetter: Squamates de Type Moderne. In: Jean Piveteau: Traité de Paléontologie...
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