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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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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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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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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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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Cryptochetum iceryae (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
identified in the wildlife garden at the Natural History Museum. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1896). Manual of the families and genera of North American Diptera...
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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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supposedly lowest to highest levels of organisation. Williston's law, first noticed by Samuel Wendell Williston, states that parts in an organism tend to become...
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Copestylum lentum (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Family: Syrphidae Genus: Copestylum Species: C. lentum Binomial name Copestylum lentum Williston, 1887...
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Madremyia saundersii (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
bristle fly in the family Tachinidae. Canada, United States, Mexico. Williston, S.W. (1889). The dipterous parasites of North American butterflies. Pp...
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Mallota sackeni (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Order: Diptera Family: Syrphidae Genus: Mallota Species: M. sackeni Binomial name Mallota sackeni Williston, 1882 Synonyms Mallota columbiae Curran, 1922...
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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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Xanthoepalpus bicolor (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae. United States, Mexico. Williston, S.W. (1886). "Dipterological notes and descriptions". Transactions of...
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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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Leucopis bellula (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
Leucopis bellula is a species of fly in the family Chamaemyiidae. Williston, Samuel Wendell (1889). "Leucopis bellula, n. sp". Insect Life. 1: 258–259. Retrieved...
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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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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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Xylophagus gracilis (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
is a species of fly in the family Xylophagidae. Canada, United States. Williston, S.W. (1885). "Notes and descriptions of North American Xylophagidae and...
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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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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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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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Xylophagus decorus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
is a species of fly in the family Xylophagidae. Canada, United States. Williston, S.W. (1885). "Notes and descriptions of North American Xylophagidae and...
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Paleorhinus (category Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston)
type species of Paleorhinus. It was first described and named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1904 on the basis of the holotype FMNH UC 632, a complete but...
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"beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives. In 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston proposed the Sphenodontia to include only tuatara and their closest...
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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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