Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the...
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(botany) Rank (zoology) Segregate (taxonomy) Virus classification Wastebasket taxon This is not considered as mandatory, however, as indicated by terms...
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early, primitive ungulates. It is now largely considered to be a wastebasket taxon, having served as a dumping ground for classifying ungulates which...
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Basilosaurus (section Wastebasket taxa)
neritic zones of the inland sea. Basilosaurus was at one point a wastebasket taxon before the genus slowly started getting reevaluated, with many species...
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Georges Cuvier. "Mastodon" for its taxonomic history served as a wastebasket taxon for any fossil proboscidean species whose dentitions appeared closer...
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thought to have had a worldwide distribution due to the genus' use as a wastebasket taxon for numerous species of conical-shelled nautiloids throughout the...
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the genus Ontocetus (now a genus of walrus), and then moved to a wastebasket taxon Scaldicetus until Boersma and his colleagues gave a new generic name...
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Cretaceous epoch. Multiple species within this genus are considered to be wastebasket taxon due to morphological similarities in the teeth. The name Squalicorax...
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Troodon (/ˈtroʊ.ədɒn/ TROH-ə-don; Troödon in older sources) is a former wastebasket taxon and a potentially dubious genus of relatively small, bird-like theropod...
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Pantotheria is an abandoned taxon of Mesozoic mammals. This group is now considered an informal "wastebasket" taxon and has been replaced by Dryolestida...
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Adelophthalmus (section Status as a wastebasket taxon)
have prompted some researchers to designate Adelophthalmus as a "wastebasket taxon" with poorly known internal relationships and phylogeny. The genus...
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Helichrysum (category Taxonbars with 25–29 taxon IDs)
growing to a height of 60–90 cm (24–35 inches). The genus was a wastebasket taxon, and many of its members have been reclassified in smaller genera...
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reassigned to the condylarths (primitive plant-eaters, now understood as a wastebasket taxon). More recently, these animals have been thought to be the ancestors...
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ambiguity regarding the definition of the genus, which led it to become a wastebasket taxon that contained as many as fifty different species. The taxonomic issue...
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Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, alongside other legendary creatures, under the wastebasket taxon of Animalia Paradoxa. In translation, Linnaeus is quoted as saying...
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Georges Cuvier in 1817. The genus became problematic as it served as a wastebasket taxon for over 20 fossil proboscidean species whose dentitions more closely...
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Waste container (redirect from Wastebasket)
classification (e.g., the proposed order Insectivora is considered a "wastebasket taxon", as it groups small mammals that do not fit nicely into other taxa)...
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Incertae sedis (redirect from Enigmatic taxon)
that in the opinion of the taxonomist requires further investigation Wastebasket taxon Sui generis (biology) Unclassified language "Plumalina plumaria"....
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Machairodus (category Taxonbars without secondary Wikidata taxon IDs)
the subfamily Machairodontinae gets its name and has since become a wastebasket taxon over the years as many genera of sabertooth cat have been and are...
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many Old World species were placed here, as Mabuya was a kind of "wastebasket taxon". These Old World species are now placed in the genera Chioninia,...
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Pterodon (mammal) (section Wastebasket history)
revised during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it became a wastebasket taxon for other hyaenodont species found in Africa and Asia. Today, only...
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discovered were given the "catch-all" name Orthoceras, thus creating a wastebasket taxon. However, it is now known that many species, genera and families of...
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Form classification (redirect from Form taxon (botany))
in -pollis or -pollenoides. "Form taxon" can more casually be used to describe a wastebasket taxon: either a taxon that is not a natural (monophyletic)...
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large carnivorous dinosaur. As a result, it began to function as a "wastebasket taxon", and many large or small carnivorous dinosaurs from Europe and elsewhere...
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elapids, than to each other. This family was historically used as a "wastebasket taxon" for snakes that do not fit elsewhere. Until recently, colubrids were...
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family of large herbivorous mammals traditionally placed in the “wastebasket taxon” Condylarthra, which may instead represent early-stage perissodactyls...
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from innermost to outer "toe". Plesiosaurus has historically been a wastebasket taxon. This is due in part to few anatomical or taxonomic studies of the...
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in Nesodillo at some point. In recent years Cubaris has become a wastebasket taxon, resulting in many species being placed in the genus even when they...
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After its description by Brant in 1872, Cetotheriidae was used as a wastebasket taxon for baleen whales which were not assignable to extant whale families...
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species of Dicynodon have been named, and the genus is considered a wastebasket taxon. A 2011 study of the genus found most of the species to represent...
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