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    Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president...
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  • Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. (15 January 1887 – 16 September 1969), was an American conservationist. He was longtime president of the New York Zoological...
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  • (1823–?), English cricketer Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935), American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist Henry Osborn (politician) (1859–1937)...
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    Hudson Highlands. The Osborn family, including paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn and his son, conservationist Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr, owned and lived...
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    higher primate of North America. It was originally described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1922, on the basis of a tooth found by rancher and geologist...
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    Redwoods League with Frederick Russell Burnham, John C. Merriam, and Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1918. He is also credited with helping develop the first deer...
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    Ornitholestes (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    Quarry near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, in 1900. It was described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1903. An incomplete hand was later attributed to Ornitholestes...
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    Tyrannosaurus (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    identified by Hatcher as those of a theropod rather than a ceratopsid. Henry Fairfield Osborn recognized the similarity between Manospondylus gigas and T. rex...
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    The Fairfield Osborn Preserve is a 450-acre nature reserve situated on the northwest flank of Sonoma Mountain in Sonoma County, California. There are eight...
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  • eugenic research in the post-war period." Osborn was the nephew of the paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn. Osborn graduated from Princeton University in...
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    specific name, osborni, is in honor of American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14. Wermuth...
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    Velociraptor (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    raptorial second toe claws (AMNH 6515). In 1924, museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn designated the skull and claw (which he assumed to come from the...
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    creation of the Gulf Stream, as first suggested in 1910 by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Osborn based the proposal on the fossil record of mammals in Central...
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    complete skull just a few meters away from the front of the neck. Henry Fairfield Osborn disagreed with this association, and went on to mount a skeleton...
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    Oviraptor (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    the genus and type species Oviraptor philoceratops were named by Henry Fairfield Osborn. The genus name refers to the initial thought of egg-stealing habits...
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    Ankylosauria (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    Antarctica) during the Cretaceous. Ankylosauria was first named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1923. In the Linnaean classification system, the group is usually...
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    Synapsida (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    Superclass: Tetrapoda Clade: Reptiliomorpha Clade: Amniota Clade: Synapsida Osborn, 1903 Subgroups †Asaphestera †Protoclepsydrops? †Diadectomorpha? †Caseasauria...
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    Struthiomimus (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    described as the type genus of a new subgenus, Struthiomimus, by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1917. Dale Russell made Struthiomimus a full genus in 1972, at...
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    Department, Henry Fairfield Osborn, with the discovery of a nearly complete Coryphodon skeleton near the Greybull River. In early 1897, Osborn offered Brown...
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  • their position and morphology. This nomenclature was developed by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1907 and is, although with many variations, the one that continues...
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    married Frank Buel and lived in Daggett. Muir's friend, zoologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, writes that Muir's style of writing did not come to him easily...
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    Diapsid (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Clade: Romeriida Clade: Diapsida Osborn, 1903 Subgroups †Dolerosaurus †Araeoscelidia? †Parareptilia? Neodiapsida...
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    species Andrewsarchus was named after him. Andrews, along with Henry Fairfield Osborn, was a proponent of the Out of Asia theory of humanity's origins...
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    Andrewsarchus (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    Middle Eocene in what is now China. The genus was first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924 with the type species A. mongoliensis based on a largely...
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    covering substantial parts of the body. The term was coined by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1911 for an Edmontosaurus specimen (AMNH 5060) discovered in...
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    best-selling writer on conservation and son of WCS founder Henry Fairfield Osborn, Osborn embraced changes that represented new thinking within the organization...
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    the mounting of the American Museum of Natural History specimen, Henry Fairfield Osborn chose to label the skeleton "Brontosaurus", though he was a strong...
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    the British Museum of Natural History, Henry Fairfield Osborn of the AMNH managed to secure the mummy. Osborn described the fossil in detail in 1912,...
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    then ascended to intelligent and rational beings (emphasis added). Henry Fairfield Osborn wrote in his work on the history of evolutionary thought, From the...
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    Pentaceratops (category Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn)
    insufficient value as a display. The species was named and described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1923, as Pentaceratops sternbergii. The generic name means "five-horned...
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