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    Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (also Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Baron Nopcsa, Ferenc Nopcsa, báró felsőszilvási Nopcsa Ferenc, Baron Franz Nopcsa...
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    baron and scholar Franz Nopcsa (1877–1933), who hired him as his servant. The two became lovers and began to live together. Nopcsa and Doda left Bucharest...
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    from specimens first named as the species Mochlodon robustum in 1899 by Franz Nopcsa before being reclassified as Rhabdodon robustum by him in 1915. In 1990...
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    The approximately equivalent clade Panoplosaurinae, named in 1929 by Franz Nopcsa, but was not significantly used until Robert Bakker reused the name in...
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    and deltas, however they are not islands. The Hungarian paleontologist Franz Nopcsa theorized that "limited resources" found on the island commonly have...
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    when it was mounted by the museum, the specimen was again described by Franz Nopcsa who for the first time provided an illustration of the possible spike...
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    Sztára et Nagymihály, the two other Hungarian ladies-in-waiting, Baron Franz Nopcsa, the majordomo of the Empress' household and Jácint Rónay, a titular...
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    small skeleton in the Compsognathus belly was an embryo, but in 1903, Franz Nopcsa concluded that it was a lizard. Ostrom identified the remains as belonging...
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    Telmatosaurus (category Taxa named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás)
    Ferenc or Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás who was inspired by the find to become a paleontology student at the University of Vienna. In 1899 Nopcsa named the...
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    Thyreophora (category Taxa named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás)
    Ankylosauria and Stegosauria as infraorders. Thyreophora was first named by Nopcsa in 1915. Thyreophora was defined as a clade by Paul Sereno in 1998, as "all...
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    reconstruction of the related Polacanthus by Hungarian paleontologist Franz Nopcsa was a better example of how ankylosaurs would have appeared in life....
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    "lacertilian" (lizard) by Leidy, but reassigned as a megalosaurid dinosaur by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás in 1901 (Megalosauridae having historically been a...
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    visited Theth in the early 20th century, including Rose Wilder Lane, Franz Nopcsa, and others. These travelers often detailed and praised the environment...
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    authorities. The genus name Phobosuchus, which was initially created by Baron Franz Nopcsa in 1924, has since been discarded because it contained a variety of different...
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    question of the future prince and several candidates came through: Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Marchese D'Auletta (claiming descendance from Skanderbeg)...
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  • Vasa, and the natural progression of the Albanian Vilayet. The works of Franz Nopcsa, Johann Georg von Hahn and Milan Šufflay, helped strengthen the nationalists'...
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    azhdarchids. The first pterosaur remains from Romania were identified by Franz Nopcsa in 1899, and the first remains of Hatzegopteryx were found during a student...
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  • chaotic aftermath of World War I, Hungarian aristocrat and geologist Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás became the first person in history to hijack an airplane[dubious...
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    around 60 books in English, Albanian or German. Robert Elsie, Baron Franz Nopcsa and his contribution to Albanian studies. Robert Elsie (2001). The Dictionary...
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    Florentina Iusco Kocsárd Janky Bogdan Juratoni Raluca Lăzăruț Maria Neculiță Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás Dora Pavel Pál Réthy Daniela Silivaș Adrian Sitaru...
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    Teinurosaurus (category Taxa named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás)
    (now Cumnoria prestwichii), a herbivorous iguanodont. In 1928 Baron Franz Nopcsa recognised the fossil to be the vertebra of a theropod not an ornithopod...
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    Kallokibotion (category Taxa named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás)
    bajazidi, which was named by Franz Nopcsa after his lover Bajazid Doda. It literally means 'beautiful box of Bajazid'; Nopcsa chose the name because, in...
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    mistook the fossil, holotype SMC B.28814, for the base of a cranium. Franz Nopcsa in 1912 correctly identified it as the front part of a neural arch. Craterosaurus...
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    Kristo Meksi as its emissary to the Albanian Congress of Trieste. Baron Franz Nopcsa who participated in the work of the congress, published his notes on...
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    century such studies were deepened by Norbert Jokl, Milan Šufflay, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, as well as Karl Reinhold, and Eqrem Çabej. The studies...
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    Hylaeosaurus material have later been made separate species. In 1928 Franz Nopcsa made specimen BMNH 2584, a left scapula referred by Mantell to H. armatus...
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    phylogenetic tree. The founder or "father" of modern paleobiology was Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877 to 1933), a Hungarian scientist trained at the University of Vienna...
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    Poposauroidea (category Taxa named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás)
    vertebrae and ankle bones were gained or lost within Poposauroidea. Franz Nopcsa first used the term Poposauridae in 1923 to refer to poposauroids. At...
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    small skeleton in the Compsognathus belly was an embryo, but in 1903, Franz Nopcsa concluded that it was a lizard. In 1978, John Ostrom identified the remains...
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    to determine. Fraas originally assigned it to the Dinosauria. In 1923 Franz Nopcsa coined a Procompsognathinae, and in 1929 von Huene created a Procompsognathidae...
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