Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1852 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that...
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Varanops (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
first named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1911 as a second species of Varanosaurus, Varanosaurus brevirostris. In 1914, Samuel W. Williston reassigned it...
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Clogmia albipunctata (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
albipunctata. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clogmia albipunctata. Williston, S.W. (1893). "The North American Psychodidae". Entomological News. 4:...
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slow-moving bottom feeder. According to American paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston, the jaws were adapted for crushing, implying the turtle ate large...
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Gillis Williston (1914–2006), Canadian educator and politician Samuel Wendell Williston (1851–1918), American paleontologist Samuel Williston (1861–1963)...
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Hill River in Wallace County (now Logan County), Kansas, USA, by Samuel Wendell Williston, a fossil collector working for Marsh. A second, smaller skull...
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Apatomerus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
as the thighbone of a crocodilian, but was described in 1903 by Samuel Wendell Williston as belonging to a pterosaur. This identification held through the...
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Araeoscelidia (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
condition. Araeoscelidia includes well-known genera such as Araeoscelis Williston 1910, Petrolacosaurus Lane 1945 and Spinoaequalis, known from virtually...
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Limnoscelis (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Limnoscelis paludis was finally described in 1911 by the paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston, who discovered three specimens of the genus in the Yale Peabody...
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Dolichorhynchops (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
supervision of Dr. Samuel Wendell Williston, who described and named it in 1902. A more detailed description and photographs were provided by Williston 1903). The...
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Merosargus gracilis (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
in the family Stratiomyidae. Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I,...
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Merosargus festivus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
a species of soldier fly in the family Stratiomyidae. Brazil. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I,...
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fly, is a fly species in the Syrphidae family first described by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1882. Aside from Northern Canada, the species has been largely...
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Pelagomyia (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Stratiomyidae. Pelagomyia albitalis Williston, 1896 - St. Vincent. Pelagomyia illucens James, 1967 - Dominica Williston, Samuel Wendell (1896). Manual of the families...
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Trichasaurus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Trichasaurus is an extinct genus of caseid synapsids. List of pelycosaurs The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive v t e...
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Brachauchenius (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
had a skull length of up to 1 m (3.3 ft). The species was named by Samuel W. Williston. The individual to which this specimen belongs would have measured...
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Brown's Ankylosaurus description, the American paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston criticized the skeletal reconstruction as being based on too few...
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Neoascia distincta (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
species of Hoverfly in the family Syrphidae. Canada, United States. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1882). "Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae"...
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Caseasauria (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Synapsida Clade: †Caseasauria Williston, 1912 Families †Caseidae †Eothyrididae...
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Spilomyia interrupta (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
moist areas such as rot holes of trees. Canada, United States. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1882). "Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae"...
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Brachypalpus femoratus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
species is noted from the western North America. External map Williston, Samuel Wendell (1882). "Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae"...
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Myxosargus braueri (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
a species of soldier fly in the family Stratiomyidae. Brazil. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1888). "Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I,...
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Chrysopilus ater (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
a species of snipe fly in the family Rhagionidae St. Vincent. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1896). "On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies)". Transactions...
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as missing from the collection by the American paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston in 1906. Cope had loaned these elements to the English sculptor...
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evolved flight by running (the "ground up" hypothesis proposed by Samuel Wendell Williston). Still others suggest that Archaeopteryx might have been at home...
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Caseidae (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The family Caseidae was erected by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1911. In 1940, Alfred Sherwood Romer and L.W. Price placed Caseidae...
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Ogmodirus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Limestone of Kansas. The type species, O. martini, was named by Samuel Wendell Williston and Roy Lee Moodie in 1913. The holotype, KUVP 441, consists of...
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Parasphaerocera (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Entomological Society: 66–71. Retrieved 17 September 2017. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1896). [Samuel Wendell), 1851-1918 "On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies)"]...
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Laphria canis (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Asilidae Genus: Laphria Species: L. canis Binomial name Laphria canis Williston, 1883 Synonyms Laphria dispar Banks, 1911 Laphria disparella Banks, 1913...
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species had been considered nomina dubia ever since. Paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston unearthed the first skull of the pterosaur, and found that the...
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