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    Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy...
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  • Johnson then attempts to join Prof. Othniel Charles Marsh on his yearly expedition fossil hunting in the Badlands. Marsh is reluctant until Johnson lies,...
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    Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale). Each of the...
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    Nanosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    described and named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877. The taxon has a complicated taxonomic history, largely the work of Marsh and Peter M. Galton, involving...
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    Brontosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    Late Jurassic period. It was described by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879, the type species being dubbed B. excelsus, based on a partial...
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    Wars, a fossil-collecting rivalry between early paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. In Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, the...
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  • Cimolodontidae was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889 and is part of the suborder Cimolodonta within the superfamily Ptilodontoidea. Marsh (1889), "Discovery...
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    continent, including Antarctica. The name Sauropoda was coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, and is derived from Ancient Greek, meaning "lizard foot"...
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    Stegosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    of Stegosaurus armatus when Yale paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh described them in 1877. Marsh initially believed the remains were from an aquatic...
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    Cimolodonta and family Cimolomyidae. The genus Cimolomys was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889. The species Cimolomys clarki was named by Sahni in 1972...
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    named earlier. The best known of these is E. annectens, named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1892. This species was originally as a species of Claosaurus...
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  • Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology is a 2005 graphic novel written...
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    Allosauridae (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    taxonomic group, having been first named by the American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878. Allosaurids are characterized by an astragalus with a restriction...
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    Ceratopsia (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    In 1888 and 1889, Othniel Charles Marsh described the first well preserved horned dinosaurs, Ceratops and Triceratops. In 1890 Marsh classified them together...
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    the informal suborder of "Plagiaulacida". The family was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889. Two genera are recognized: Ctenacodon and Psalodon. Kielan-Jaworowska...
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    Triceratops (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    the genus was first described in 1889 by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. Specimens representing life stages from hatchling to adult have...
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    period of scientific rivalry between him and Othniel Charles Marsh known as the Bone Wars. Soon after, Marsh named a genus Morosaurus, but it was subsequently...
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    Torosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    southeastern Wyoming. Hatcher's employer, paleontologist Professor Othniel Charles Marsh, coined the genus Torosaurus for them. The name Torosaurus is frequently...
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    Stegosauria (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    nearly-complete skeleton was discovered in the United States. Professor Othniel Charles Marsh that year classified such specimens in the new genus Stegosaurus...
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  • 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh. The generic name, derived from Greek διπλόος, diploos, "double", probably refers to the "biconcave vertebrae" Marsh mentions...
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    Theropoda (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    coelurosaurs, at least) feathers. O. C. Marsh coined the name Theropoda (meaning "beast feet") in 1881. Marsh initially named Theropoda as a suborder...
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    Allosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    ascribed to this genus were described in 1877 by famed paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. As one of the first well-known theropod dinosaurs, it has long...
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  • 1863), American Civil War Union colonel Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), American paleontologist Charles H. Marsh (1840–1867), American Civil War Union...
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    Apatosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax, in 1877, and...
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    Nyctosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    described in 1876 by Othniel Charles Marsh, based on fragmentary material, holotype YPM 1178, from the Smoky Hill River site in Kansas. Marsh referred the specimen...
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    the tail, an error which was made light of by the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, and became part of their "Bone Wars" rivalry. Only one incomplete...
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    Multituberculata. Ctenacodon, also known as Allodon (Marsh 1881), was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879. At least three species are currently recognized...
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    philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, an early paleontologist. The museum is best known for the Great...
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    Nodosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    apparatus. During the Bone Wars between palaeontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, Marsh sent his collector William Harlow Reed to the Cenomanian...
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    Camptosaurus (category Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh)
    found the remains of a small euornithopod. That same year Professor Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the find as Camptonotus, or "flexible back"...
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