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    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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    Saurischia (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
    structure. Saurischia and Ornithischia were originally called orders by Harry Seeley in 1888 though today most paleontologists classify Saurischia as an unranked...
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    for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria." In 1887 and 1888 Harry Seeley divided dinosaurs into the two orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, based...
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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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    Ornithocheirus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
    described in the early and middle 19th century. Young researcher Harry Govier Seeley was commissioned to bring order to the pterosaur collection of the...
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    Gorgonopsia (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
    the type species of the family Gorgonopsidae. British palaeontologist Harry Seeley in 1895 believed Gorgonops lacked an opening in the temporal bone (temporal...
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    Ornithischia (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
    distribution. While often these groups were placed within Dinosauria, Harry Govier Seeley suggested instead in 1888 that ornithopods and stegosaurs, which...
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    Ophthalmosaurus (category Taxa named by Harry Seeley)
    centimetres (3.9 in) in diameter. Ophthalmosaurus was first described by Harry Seeley in 1874 with particular focus on the morphology of the clavicular bones...
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    type species, S. macrocercus, was described by British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1879 and it was later synonymised with Acanthopholis, but the genus...
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