Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the...
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Megalochelys (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
of the late Hugh Falconer: With a Biographical Sketch of the Author Compiled and Edited by Charles Murchison. Rob. Hardwicke, 1868. Falconer, H., Cautley...
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Palaeoloxodon namadicus (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidae Genus: †Palaeoloxodon Species: †P. namadicus Binomial name †Palaeoloxodon namadicus (Falconer & Cautley, 1846)...
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Columbian mammoth (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
naturalist Hugh Falconer, who named the species Elephas columbi after the explorer Christopher Columbus. The animal was brought to Falconer's attention...
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plant native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, northern Pakistan and Kashmir. Hugh Falconer noted that this was the source of asafoetida in Central Asia. Although...
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sharp criticism from two of Lyell's younger colleagues – paleontologist Hugh Falconer and archaeologist John Lubbock – who felt that Lyell had used their...
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studied by the Survey's supervisor, Hugh Falconer, who concluded that they were reptilian bones. After Falconer's death, in 1877, Richard Lydekker described...
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mammoths. The species was named in 1847 by British palaeontologists Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley as Elephas (Euelephas) antiquus. The type specimen...
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doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.10.022. Falconer, Hugh (1868). Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer: Fauna antiqua sivalensis. R. Hardwicke...
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Stegodon (category Taxa named by Hugh Falconer)
Class: Mammalia Order: Proboscidea Family: †Stegodontidae Genus: †Stegodon Falconer, 1847 Species †S. aurorae (Matsumoto, 1918) †S. elephantoides (Clift, 1828)...
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