Harry Govier Seeley (18 February 1839 – 8 January 1909) was a British paleontologist. Seeley was born in London on 18 February 1839, the second son of...
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Gigantosaurus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
type species, Gigantosaurus megalonyx, was named and described by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869. Its syntype series consists of several separately discovered...
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French commune of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Pas-de-Calais. Rather, in 1869 Harry Govier Seeley erected a species of Pliosaurus, Pliosaurus pachydeirus, based on...
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species named Pterodactylus simus, though the British paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley had created a separate generic name called Ornithocheirus, and reassigned...
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Late Jurassic. The family Rhamphorhynchidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley. Members of the group possess no more than 11 pairs of teeth in the...
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proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley but later abandoned in favor of Harry Govier Seeley's division of Dinosauria into Saurischia and Ornithischia. The term...
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the purported plesiosaur embryos discovered by Harry Govier Seeley. Thulborn concluded that Seeley's supposed embryos were actually nodules of mudstone...
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1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0588:TNOMHH]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 130607702. Seeley, Harry Govier (1877). "On Mauisaurus Gardneri (Seeley), an Elasmosaurian from the Base of the Gault...
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It was renamed from its original genus designation of Tribolodon (Harry Govier Seeley, 1895), which was already occupied by a genus of cyprinid fish named...
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separate genus Enaliochelys and species Enaliochelys chelonia, named by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869 for a partial disarticulated skeleton from the early Kimmeridgian...
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originally described as a species of Plesiosaurus by palaeontologist Harry Govier Seeley in 1869, before being given its own genus by naturalist Richard Lydekker...
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Eucercosaurus were reinterpreted as basal iguanodontians. In 1869 Harry Govier Seeley named several new species of Acanthopholis based on remains from...
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numerous genera and species would be named. Many were described by Harry Govier Seeley, at the time the main English expert on the subject, who also wrote...
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perhaps a theropod or some indeterminate predatory archosaur. In 1881, Harry Govier Seeley named two possible theropod teeth found in Austria Megalosaurus pannoniensis...
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Latin caelum, "heaven", and draco, "dragon" and is a reference to Harry Govier Seeley's 1901 book, Dragons of the Air. In Unwin's original classification...
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originally called Ornithocheirus capito by the British paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley back in 1870. The skull of Tropeognathus bore a distinctively convex...
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Dimorphodontidae (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
and possibly Antarctica. Dimorphodontidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley (as "Dimorphodontae"), with Dimorphodon as the only known member...
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deposits numerous adult fossils were found containing fetuses. In 1880, Harry Govier Seeley, heading a special British paleontological committee studying the...
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Thecospondylus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
found in the quarry of Southborough. He sent it to paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley who in 1882 described and named it as the type species Thecospondylus...
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Cynognathus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley visited southern Africa. In 1889, near Lady Frere, at a location where earlier Alfred Brown had discovered a tooth, Seeley excavated...
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animal was therefore very ungainly on the ground. However, his rival Harry Govier Seeley, propagating the view that pterosaurs were warm-blooded and active...
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described by Richard Lydekker in 1890. Five years later, in 1895, Harry Govier Seeley used this genus to establish the larger clade of Gorgonopsia. In...
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Thecodontosaurus was, by mistake, described as a separate genus. In 1891, Harry Govier Seeley named Agrosaurus macgillivrayi, assuming the remains had been collected...
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Doratorhynchus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
replacement name for Pterodactylus validus, in 1875 suggested by Harry Govier Seeley. Today it is considered a nomen vanum. In 1870 Richard Owen named...
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holotype of the oospecies Oolithes sphaericus was briefly considered by Harry Govier Seeley to be pterosaurian in origin, although this attribution was dismissed...
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to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1887. Harry Govier Seeley divides the Dinosaurs into two taxa based on the configuration of...
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Rhadinosaurus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
lizard") is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur first described in 1881 by Harry Govier Seeley, based on remains uncovered in Austria sometime between 1859 and...
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) This in 1956 became the separate genus Lexovisaurus. In 1893, Harry Govier Seeley named Omosaurus phillipsii, based on a left femur of a young individual...
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Seebohm – Henry Seebohm (1832–1895) Seegers – Lothar Seegers Seeley – Harry Govier Seeley (1839–1909) Selby – Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867) Sélys – Edmond...
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based on their fossil taxa. The initial undertaking was done by Harry Govier Seeley who subdivided the Beaufort Group into three biozones, which he named...
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