Peter Malcolm Galton (born 14 March 1942 in London) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific...
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Nanosaurus (section Galton's taxonomic revisions)
has a complicated taxonomic history, largely the work of Marsh and Peter M. Galton, involving the genera Laosaurus, Hallopus, Drinker, Othnielia, and...
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have considered Hypsirhophus to be a synonym of Stegosaurus, though Peter Galton (2010) suggested that it is distinct based on differences in the vertebrae...
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Lesothosaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
what is now South Africa and Lesotho. It was named by paleontologist Peter Galton in 1978, the name meaning "lizard from Lesotho". The genus has only one...
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Elrhazosaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
the type specimen of a new species of Valdosaurus (V. nigeriensis) by Peter Galton and Taquet in 1982. It was differentiated from the type species V. canaliculatus...
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among the fossils, as well as certain morphological features. In 2017, Peter Galton and Krishnan Ayyasami reaffirmed that Dravidosaurus was a stegosaur and...
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warranted its own subfamily, Thescelosaurinae. T. edmontonensis has, since Peter Galton's 1974 review, generally been considered a more robust individual (possibly...
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Alcovasaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
had an ISSN. This renders the name "Natronasaurus" invalid, and Peter Malcolm Galton and Kenneth Carpenter gave the genus another name, Alcovasaurus,...
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Valdosaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
BMNH R185, would be commonly referred to the latter genus. However, in 1975 Peter Galton named them as a new species of Dryosaurus: Dryosaurus canaliculatus....
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Torvosaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
type species Torvosaurus tanneri was named and described in 1979 by Peter Malcolm Galton and Jensen. The genus name Torvosaurus derives from the Latin word...
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Schimmelpenninck (née Galton, 1778–1856), British writer in the anti-slavery movement Peter Galton (born 1942), British vertebrate paleontologist Ray Galton (1930–2018)...
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Callovosaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
leedsi attracted little attention for decades until it was reviewed by Peter Galton. First noting its distinctiveness in a review of English hypsilophodontids...
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Gyposaurus capensis in 1911, from bones discovered in South Africa but Peter Galton renamed these Anchisaurus capensis in 1976. This species has since been...
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Lamplughsaura (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Kutty, T.S.; Chatterjee, S.; Galton, P.M.; Upchurch, P. (2007). "Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria: Saurischia)...
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Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS (18 June 1753 – 19 June 1832) was an English arms manufacturer. He was born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England, into a Quaker...
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Efraasia (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
was itself a junior homonym of Palaeosauriscus fraserianus Cope 1878. Peter Galton reassigned Fraas' specimens to the new genus Efraasia in 1973, because...
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Pantydraco (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
characteristics of basal sauropodomorphs (also known as prosauropods) has led Peter Galton, Yates, and D. Kermack to give T. caducus its own genus. The genus was...
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Yaverlandia (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
followed Hulke (1879) in listing Vectisaurus as an iguanodontid, Peter Malcolm Galton (1971) named the fossil as Yaverlandia, which he described as a pachycephalosaurid...
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The Galton–Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names...
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Plateosaurus engelhardti and Massospondylus carinatus, and its descendants. Peter Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2004 used a different definition: the last common...
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Systeme überhaupt". Wiener Museum Annalen. II: 175–187. Galton, Peter; Jensen, James A. (1979). "Galton, P. M., & Jensen, J. A. (1979). Remains of ornithopod...
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minor (now Efraasia) and Teratosaurus trossingensis. In 1985 and 1986, Peter Galton and Michael Benton independently showed that Teratosaurus is actually...
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destroyed during an allied bombing of Le Havre in 1944. The species was by Peter Galton considered a junior synonym of Omosaurus armatus in 1991. Even as the...
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Asylosaurus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
original holotype of Thecodontosaurus. Asylosaurus was described in 2007 by Peter Galton. The type species is A. yalensis, referring to Yale. The bones originally...
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to Lexovisaurus until a more proper description was made in 1985 by Peter Galton. The specimen was a partial postcranial skeleton, including many vertebrae...
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Gravitholus (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
is now Alberta, Canada, and was described in 1979 by W. P. Wall and Peter Galton. The type species is Gravitholus albertae. There is some debate amongst...
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Camptosaurus fossils are present in stratigraphic zones 2–6. Then in 1980, Peter Galton and H.P. Powell in their redescription of C. prestwichi (see following)...
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and Palaeosaurus platyodon, were all declared nomina dubia. In 2007, Peter Galton, reviewing the archosaurian fossils of the 1834 Bristol finds, reaffirmed...
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In 1970, Steel classified Herrerasaurus as a prosauropod. In 1972, Peter Galton classified the genus as not diagnosable beyond Saurischia. Later, using...
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Pradhania (category Taxa named by Peter Galton)
Formation of India. It was first named by T. S. Kutty, Sankar Chatterjee, Peter M. Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2007 and the type species is Pradhania gracilis...
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