A holotype (Latin: holotypus) is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally...

nomenclatural type when there was no holotype specified or the holotype has been lost or destroyed isotype – a duplicate of the holotype syntype – any specimen (or...

Marsh, but more likely was used solely for display. The first specimen, holotype USNM 4735, was discovered and excavated by farmer Marshall Parker Felch...

Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. In 1996, the specimen became the holotype of the type species Irritator challengeri. The genus name comes from the...

and 22 meters (59 and 72 ft) long; body mass estimates of the subadult holotype specimen range from 28.3 to 46.9 metric tons (31.2 to 51.7 short tons)...

area in New South Wales, Australia. It is currently only known from the holotype specimen. Grevillea milleriana is a low, spreading, sub-prostrate shrub...

Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia in 1993...

preserved skull, as well as teeth and the lower jaw, belonging to L., the holotype specimen MUSM 1676, were discovered in the coastal desert of Peru in the...

birds known to demonstrate semi-aquatic adaptations. The Shuilingornis holotype specimen, LY2022JZ3002, was discovered in sediments of the Jiufotang Formation...

mammal, though its size may have been historically overestimated. The holotype of Andrewsarchus mongoliensis, a mostly-complete cranium (AMNH-VP 20135)...