List of non-dinosaur fossil specimens with nicknames

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This list of nicknamed non-dinosaur fossils is a list of non-dinosaurian fossil specimens given informal names or nicknames, in addition to their institutional catalogue numbers. It excludes informal appellations that are purely descriptive (e.g., "the Fighting Dinosaurs", "the Trachodon Mummy").

For a list of dinosaur fossil specimens, see List of dinosaur specimens with nicknames.

Synapsids

= Mammals =

== Atlantogenata ==

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Archie

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|University of Nebraska State Museum

|Columbian Mammoth

(Mammuthus columbi)

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|File:Archie the mammoth.jpg

Benny{{cite web|date=2018-08-29|title=How Two Rival Mammoths Lost an Epic Duel 12,000 Years Ago|url=https://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/two-rival-mammoths-lost-epic-duel-12000-years-ago.htm|access-date=2021-05-06|website=HowStuffWorks|language=en|archive-date=4 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304012032/https://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/two-rival-mammoths-lost-epic-duel-12000-years-ago.htm|url-status=live}}

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|Trailside Museum of Natural History

|Columbian Mammoth

(Mammuthus columbi)

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|Specimen died in an intraspecific fight with another of the same species, "George". Named after land surveyors Ben Ferguson and George McMillan

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Dima

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|Woolly Mammoth

(Mammuthus primigenius)

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Fred{{Cite web|title=Science Central - Fred the Mastodon Exhibit|url=http://www.exhibitsalive.com/portfolio/ImageExhibits/ScienceCentral.html|access-date=2021-05-01|website=www.exhibitsalive.com|archive-date=4 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904050740/http://www.exhibitsalive.com/portfolio/ImageExhibits/ScienceCentral.html|url-status=live}}

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|Science Central

|American Mastodon

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George

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|Trailside Museum of Natural History

|Columbian Mammoth

(Mammuthus columbi)

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|Specimen died in an intraspecific fight with another of the same species, "Benny". Named after land surveyors Ben Ferguson and George McMillan

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Linda {{cite web|url= https://www.stadtmuseumbadvoeslau.at/projects/linda-zimmer/|title= Seekuh Linda|author= |website= Stadtmuseum Bad Vöslau|access-date= 2022-01-25|archive-date= 4 September 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240904050744/https://www.stadtmuseumbadvoeslau.at/projects/linda-zimmer/|url-status= live}}

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|City Museum of Bad Vöslau

|Metaxytherium medium

|Badenian

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|thumb

Little Stevie{{cite tweet |author=Western Science Center |author-link=Western Science Center |user=WesternCenter |number=703278296419577856 |date=2016-02-26 |title=Max isn't the only mastodon at the Western Science Center. Happy #FossilFriday Little Stevie! https://t.co/ODaF5IHJ8w |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511004939/https://twitter.com/westerncenter/status/703278296419577856 |archive-date=2021-05-11 |url-status=live}}

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|Western Science Center

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Lyuba

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|Woolly Mammoth

(Mammuthus primigenius)

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Mascha

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|Woolly Mammoth

(Mammuthus primigenius)

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Max{{Cite web|last=Switek|first=Brian|title=Mastodons to the Max|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/mastodons-to-the-max/|access-date=2021-05-06|website=Scientific American Blog Network|language=en|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506134229/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/mastodons-to-the-max/|url-status=live}}

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|Western Science Center

|Pacific Mastodon (Mammut pacificus)

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Megajeff

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|Megalonyx

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Mylo{{cite tweet |author=Western Science Center |author-link=Western Science Center |user=WesternCenter |number=1379195418676883456 |date=2021-04-05 |title=We asked you to #NametheWSCSloth last week & staff picked their favorite submission: say hello to Mylo! Mylo is short for Paramylodon, the genus name for the Harlan's Ground Sloth. We can't wait for you to meet Mylo in person again when we reopen to the public later this year! https://t.co/QTPPM6XWZL |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405221333/https://twitter.com/WesternCenter/status/1379195418676883456 |archive-date=2021-04-05 |url-status=live}}

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|Western Science Center

|Harlan's Ground Sloth (Paramylodon harlani)

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Sasha

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|Woolly Mammoth

(Mammuthus primigenius)

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Xena{{cite tweet |author=Western Science Center |author-link=Western Science Center |user=WesternCenter |number=631537849930637312 |date=2015-08-12 |title=Xena the mammoth wants everyone to recognize #WorldElephantDay and to support the conservation of living elephants. http://t.co/Cy0ikWRPOn |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506160331/https://twitter.com/westerncenter/status/631537849930637312 |archive-date=2021-05-06 |url-status=live}}

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|Western Science Center

|Columbian Mammoth

(Mammuthus columbi)

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Yuka

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|Woolly Mammoth

(Mammuthus primigenius)

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Zed

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|Columbian Mammoth

(Mammuthus columbi)

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= Carnivorans =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Image

Boris

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|Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea)

|44,000 years ago

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|Two to Three-weeks old cub, died due to the collapse of a cave.

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Dogor

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|Currently unknown whether it represents a wolf or domestic dog

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Sparta

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|Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea)

|26,000 years ago

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|Female cub, died of starvation.

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Tumat{{cite tweet |author=Centre for Palaeogenetics |user=CpgSthlm |number=1295304784099135488 |date=2020-08-17 |title=Follow this thread for an almost unbelievable story, hiding in the SI of this paper: https://t.co/2wnZTGVwVg Ten years ago, a roughly 14,000 year old frozen #dog or #wolf #puppy was found in Russia. It's been named Tumat. Subsequently, an autopsy of Tumat was conducted (1/n). https://t.co/FtV3SIZmjL |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410030050/https://twitter.com/CpgSthlm/status/1295304784099135488 |archive-date=2021-04-10 |url-status=live}}

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|Centre for Palaeogenetics

|yet to be determined

|14,000 years ago

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|Found in Russia nearly 10 years ago, it is a puppy that also contained a piece of Woolly Rhino skin in its belly.

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Waldo{{cite web |url=https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2019/ |title=2018 in review: advances in marine mammal paleontology |last=Boessenecker |first=Robert |date=1 January 2019 |website=The Coastal Paleontologist |access-date=17 April 2022 |archive-date=4 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904050743/https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2019/ |url-status=live }}

|OCPC 11141

|Orange County Paleontology Collection

|Titanotaria orangensis

|Late Miocene (6.6 to 5.8 Ma)

|Capistrano Formation

|one of the last and best known tuskless walrus

|File:Titanotaria dorsal.jpg

== Primates ==

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Image

Alesi{{cite web |last=Switek |first=Brian |title=Meet Alesi, the Prehistoric Infant Ape |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/meet-alesi-the-prehistoric-infant-ape/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=Scientific American Blog Network |language=en |archive-date=19 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819210639/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/meet-alesi-the-prehistoric-infant-ape/ |url-status=live }}

|KNM-NP 59050

|National Museums of Kenya{{cite journal |last1=Nengo |first1=Isaiah |last2=Tafforeau |first2=Paul |last3=Gilbert |first3=Christopher C. |last4=Fleagle |first4=John G. |last5=Miller |first5=Ellen R. |last6=Feibel |first6=Craig |last7=Fox |first7=David L. |last8=Feinberg |first8=Josh |last9=Pugh |first9=Kelsey D. |last10=Berruyer |first10=Camille |last11=Mana |first11=Sara |last12=Engle |first12=Zachary |last13=Spoor |first13=Fred |date=2017 |title=New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23456.epdf?referrer_access_token=Scin4lsEByKCdI51Q37aR9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OYR8fxt2ef8XrnEZq8B5OBgSORsPrLS3w6wndp68yveF2V_3HvOE3F_t_-B4zKVutHnynjidAXvCuMfM3tv-1_xonrtwk13e5IoAGOzmu9OGGj9PxQPUvdZJm79I3e0RWbgo4-mKV5YqYNyFbRtqDy1iplkracmyWZSkaiI3E4LlylHpS9cSyYC1oCg_VVj7DM9jCSTy_SbT5vS0dr8lIGGnXbjyBJYdc2wOha_at_6g==&tracking_referrer=news.nationalgeographic.com |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=548 |issue=7666 |pages=169–174 |doi=10.1038/nature23456 |pmid=28796200 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..169N |s2cid=4397839 |issn=0028-0836 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726234400/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23456.epdf?referrer_access_token=Scin4lsEByKCdI51Q37aR9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OYR8fxt2ef8XrnEZq8B5OBgSORsPrLS3w6wndp68yveF2V_3HvOE3F_t_-B4zKVutHnynjidAXvCuMfM3tv-1_xonrtwk13e5IoAGOzmu9OGGj9PxQPUvdZJm79I3e0RWbgo4-mKV5YqYNyFbRtqDy1iplkracmyWZSkaiI3E4LlylHpS9cSyYC1oCg_VVj7DM9jCSTy_SbT5vS0dr8lIGGnXbjyBJYdc2wOha_at_6g%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=news.nationalgeographic.com |url-status=live }}

|Nyanzapithecus alesi

|13 mya

|Lake Turkana

|An infantile cranium.

|File:Nyanzapithecus.jpg

Ardi{{Cite web |date=1994-01-01 |title=ARA-VP-6/500 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/ara-vp-6500 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=17 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717235753/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/ara-vp-6500 |url-status=live }}

|ARA-VP-6/500

|National Museums of Kenya

|Ardipithecus ramidus

|4.4 mya

|Aramis

|A partial skeleton, possibly a female.

|File:Ardi.jpg

The Black Skull{{Cite web |date=1985-01-01 |title=KNM-WT 17000 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/knm-wt-17000 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=25 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225153541/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/knm-wt-17000 |url-status=live }}

|KNM-WT 17000

|National Museums of Kenya

|Paranthropus aethiopicus

|2.5 mya

|Nachukui Formation

|A cranium.

|File:Paranthropus_aethiopicus.JPG

Dear Boy,{{Cite book |title=Assembling the tree of life |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-517234-8 |editor-last=Cracraft |editor-first=Joel |location=Oxford |editor-last2=Donoghue |editor-first2=Michael J. |editor-last3=American Museum of Natural History}} Zinj{{Cite web |date=1959-01-01 |title=OH 5 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/oh-5 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629090357/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/oh-5 |url-status=live }}

|OH 5

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|Paranthropus boisei

|1.8 ma

|Olduvai Gorge

|A cranium and mandible.

|File:Paranthropus_boisei_IMG_2933-white.jpg

Flo, Little Lady of Flores,{{Cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=P. |last2=Sutikna |first2=T. |last3=Morwood |first3=M. J. |last4=Soejono |first4=R. P. |last5=Jatmiko |last6=Wayhu Saptomo |first6=E. |last7=Awe Due |first7=Rokus |date=2004 |title=A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02999 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=431 |issue=7012 |pages=1055–1061 |doi=10.1038/nature02999 |pmid=15514638 |bibcode=2004Natur.431.1055B |s2cid=26441 |issn=1476-4687 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=14 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210314071437/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02999 |url-status=live }} Hobbit

|LB-1

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|Homo floresiensis

|50 ka

|Liang Bua

|A partial skeleton, including a cranium and mandible.

|File:Homo_Florensiensis-MGL_95216-P5030051-white.jpg

Ida{{Cite news |last1=Randerson |first1=James |last2=Pilkington |first2=Ed |date=2009-05-19 |title=Deal in Hamburg bar led scientist to Ida fossil, the 'eighth wonder of the world' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/19/fossil-ida-missing-link-discovery |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=6 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906133241/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/19/fossil-ida-missing-link-discovery |url-status=live }}

|PMO 214.214 (Slab A)

|American Museum of Natural History

|Darwinius masillae

|47 mya

|Messel Pit

|Two slabs, A and B, comprising a nearly complete individual with part and counterpart.

|File:Darwinius_masillae_PMO_214.214.jpg

Devil's Tower Child,{{Cite web |title=A new look at the Gibraltar Neanderthals |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/july/a-new-look-at-the-gibraltar-neanderthals.html |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=www.nhm.ac.uk |language=en |archive-date=25 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240825043346/https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/july/a-new-look-at-the-gibraltar-neanderthals.html |url-status=live }} Abel

|Gibraltar 2

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|Homo neanderthalensis

|42 ka

|Devil's Tower

|Five cranial fragments belonging to a young boy.

|File:Homo_neanderthalensis_face_(University_of_Zurich).JPG

Laia{{Cite journal |last1=Bouchet |first1=Florian |last2=Urciuoli |first2=Alessandro |last3=Beaudet |first3=Amélie |last4=Pina |first4=Marta |last5=Moyà-Solà |first5=Salvador |last6=Alba |first6=David M. |date=2021-12-01 |title=Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248421001251 |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=161 |pages=103073 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103073 |pmid=34628300 |bibcode=2021JHumE.16103073B |s2cid=238581331 |issn=0047-2484|hdl=2263/82958 |hdl-access=free }}

|IPS58443

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|Pliobates cataloniae

|11.6 ma

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|Partial skeleton.

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Lucy, Dinkinesh,{{Cite web |date=1974-01-01 |title=AL 288-1 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/al-288-1 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810011144/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/al-288-1 |url-status=live }} Heelomali

|AL 288-1

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|Australopithecus afarensis

|3.2 mya

|Hadar

|A partial skeleton including cranial fragments.

|File:Australopithecus_afarensisIMG_2928-white.jpg

Mrs. Ples{{Cite web |date=2013-09-30 |title=.: DITSONG MUSEUMS OF SOUTH AFRICA :. |url=http://www.ditsong.org.za/naturalhistory.htm |access-date=2023-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930040222/http://www.ditsong.org.za/naturalhistory.htm |archive-date=2013-09-30 }}

|Sts 5

|Ditsong National Museum of Natural History

|Australopithecus africanus

|2.1-2.6 mya{{Cite journal |last1=Herries |first1=Andy I. R. |last2=Shaw |first2=John |date=2011-05-01 |title=Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sterkfontein palaeocave deposits: Implications for the age of the hominin fossils and stone tool industries |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248410001727 |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=60 |issue=5 |pages=523–539 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.09.001 |pmid=21392817 |bibcode=2011JHumE..60..523H |issn=0047-2484}}

|Sterkfontein

|A cranium.

|File:Mrs_Ples_Face.jpg

Red Lady of Paviland{{Cite journal |last1=Richards |first1=Michael P. |last2=Trinkaus |first2=Erik |date=2009-09-22 |title=Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=106 |issue=38 |pages=16034–16039 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0903821106 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=2752538 |pmid=19706482 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2009PNAS..10616034R }}

|None

|Various{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

|Homo sapiens

|33 ka

|Paviland Cave

|A partial skeleton of a man.

|File:Red_Lady_of_Paviland_from_head.jpg

Taung Child,{{Cite web |date=1924-01-01 |title=Taung Child |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/taung-child |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=21 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721181911/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/taung-child |url-status=live }} Taung Baby

|Taung 1

|Wits University{{Cite web |title=Taung Child's brain development not human-like? CT scan casts doubt on similarity to that of modern humans |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825152556.htm |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=ScienceDaily |language=en |archive-date=25 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325023245/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825152556.htm |url-status=live }}

|Australopithecus

|2.8 mya

|Taung

|A partial cranium and mandible.

|File:Australopithecus_africanus_-_Cast_of_taung_child.jpg

Turkana Boy, Nariokotome Boy{{Cite journal |last1=Schiess |first1=Regula |last2=Haeusler |first2=Martin |date=2013 |title=No skeletal dysplasia in the nariokotome boy KNM-WT 15000 ( homo erectus )-A reassessment of congenital pathologies of the vertebral column |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22211 |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |language=en |volume=150 |issue=3 |pages=365–374 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.22211 |pmid=23283736 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=3 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203022101/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22211 |url-status=live }}

|KNM-WT 15000

|National Museums of Kenya

|Homo erectus

|1.5 mya

|Nachukui Formation

|One of the most complete hominin skeletons.

|File:Chlapec_od_jezera_Turkana_03.jpg

Nandy{{Cite web |date=1957-01-01 |title=Shanidar 1 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/shanidar-1 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701085229/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/shanidar-1 |url-status=live }}

|Shanidar 1

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|Homo neanderthalensis

|45-35 ka

|Shanidar Cave

|A set of skeletal remains including a skull.

|File:Shanidar_skull.jpg

The Old Man{{Cite web |date=1908-01-01 |title=La Chapelle-aux-Saints |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/la-chapelle-aux-saints |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=16 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716042716/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/la-chapelle-aux-saints |url-status=live }}

|La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1

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|Homo neanderthalensis

|60 ka

|La Chapelle-aux-Saints

|A skeleton.

|File:Neandertal skull from la chapelle aux saints.jpg

Egbert{{cite journal |last1=Bergman |first1=Christopher A. |last2=Stringer |first2=Christopher B. |date=1989 |title=Fifty years after: Egbert, an early Upper Palaeolithic juvenile from Ksar Akil, Lebanon |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/paleo_0153-9345_1989_num_15_2_4512 |journal=Paléorient |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=99–111 |doi=10.3406/paleo.1989.4512 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=18 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518133531/https://www.persee.fr/doc/paleo_0153-9345_1989_num_15_2_4512 |url-status=live }}

|Ksar Akil 1

|National Museum of Beirut

|Homo sapiens

|40-38 ka

|Ksar Akil

|A juvenile skeleton.

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Ethelruda

|Ksar Akil 2

|National Museum of Beirut

|Homo sapiens

|42-41 ka

|Ksar Akil

|A maxilla.

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The Young Prince{{Cite web |date=2017-02-23 |title=Arene Candide - Upper Paleolithic Burial of Arene Candide |work=About.com Education |url=http://archaeology.about.com/od/apthroughasterms/g/arene_candide.htm |access-date=2023-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223041929/http://archaeology.about.com/od/apthroughasterms/g/arene_candide.htm |archive-date=2017-02-23 }}

|Arene Candide 1

|Various{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

|Homo sapiens

|23 ka

|Arene Candide

|A skeleton of a teenager.

|File:Caverna delle Arene Candide-ritrovamenti Piccolo Principe-museo archeologia ligure.jpg

Jonny’s Child{{Cite web |title=Homo habilis |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-habilis |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=12 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012200923/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-habilis |url-status=live }}

|OH 7

|

|Homo habilis

|1.75 mya

|Olduvai Gorge

|A mandible, the holotype.

|File:Homo Habilis Oh7.jpg

Pinhead{{Cite journal |last=Tobias |first=Phillip V. |date=1991 |title=The species Homo habilis: example of a premature discovery |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23735461 |journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici |volume=28 |issue=3/4 |pages=371–380 |jstor=23735461 |issn=0003-455X |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716185314/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23735461 |url-status=live }}

|OH 12

|

|Homo erectus

|

|Olduvai Gorge

|A partial cranium.

|

Cinderella (Cindy){{Cite web |title=OH 13 |url=https://olduvai-paleo.org/specimen/oh-13/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=CODI |language=en-US |archive-date=28 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128095227/https://olduvai-paleo.org/specimen/oh-13/ |url-status=live }}

|OH 13

|

|Homo habilis

|

|Olduvai Gorge

|A partial cranium and mandible.

|

Olduvai George (George){{Cite web |date=1963-01-01 |title=OH 16 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/oh-16 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629090400/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/oh-16 |url-status=live }}

|OH 16

|

|Homo habilis

|1.7 mya

|Olduvai Gorge

|A partial neurocranium.

|

Twiggy{{Cite web |date=1968-01-01 |title=OH 24 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/oh-24 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629090347/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/oh-24 |url-status=live }}

|OH 24

|

|Homo habilis

|1.8 mya

|Olduvai Gorge

|A cranium.

|File:OH 24 replica 02.JPG

Selam, Dikika infant/baby/child, Lucy's Baby{{Cite journal |last1=Alemseged |first1=Zeresenay |last2=Spoor |first2=Fred |last3=Kimbel |first3=William H. |last4=Bobe |first4=René |last5=Geraads |first5=Denis |last6=Reed |first6=Denné |last7=Wynn |first7=Jonathan G. |date=2006 |title=A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05047 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=443 |issue=7109 |pages=296–301 |doi=10.1038/nature05047 |pmid=16988704 |bibcode=2006Natur.443..296A |s2cid=4418369 |issn=1476-4687 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=23 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823063802/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05047 |url-status=live }}

|DIK-1/1

|National Museum, Addis Ababa

|Australopithecus afarensis

|3.3 mya

|Dikika

|An infantile skeleton including cranium and mandible.

|File:SelamAustralopithecus.jpg

Samuel/Samu{{Cite journal |last1=Soukup |first1=Václav |last2=Mechurová |first2=Zdenka |date=2018-12-14 |title=Mysterious Prehistoric Samuel: Homo erectus paleohungaricus in the Context of Anthropogenesis |url=https://journals.muni.cz/anthropologia_integra/article/view/11426 |journal=Anthropologia Integra |language=en |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=7–19 |doi=10.5817/AI2018-2-7 |issn=1804-6665 |doi-access=free |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=29 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829200830/https://journals.muni.cz/anthropologia_integra/article/view/11426 |url-status=live }}

|Vsz II

|Hungarian National Museum

|Homo heidelbergensis?

|325-340 ka

|Vertesszolos

|A fragmentary

|File:Homo erectus palaeohungaricus.JPG

Mystery Skull

|KNM-ER 1805

|National Museums of Kenya

|Homo habilis{{Cite journal |last1=Antón |first1=Susan C. |last2=Middleton |first2=Emily R. |date=2023-06-01 |title=Making meaning from fragmentary fossils: Early Homo in the Early to early Middle Pleistocene |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=179 |pages=103307 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103307 |pmid=37030994 |s2cid=258014849 |issn=0047-2484|doi-access=free |bibcode=2023JHumE.17903307A }}

|1.74 mya

|Kariri Ridge

|A cranium.

|File:KNM ER 1805. Panel 2.jpg

The First Family{{Cite magazine |last=Switek |first=Brian |title=What Killed the Hominins of AL 333? |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/01/what-killed-the-hominins-of-al-333/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=1059-1028 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820000737/https://www.wired.com/2011/01/what-killed-the-hominins-of-al-333/ |url-status=live }}

|AL 333

|

|Australopithecus afarensis

|3.2 mya

|Hadar

|Various skeletal elements.

|

Moshe{{Cite book |last=Mithen |first=Steven |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674025592 |title=The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body |date=2007-10-31 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02559-2 |location=Cambridge, MA |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=30 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930202351/https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674025592 |url-status=live }}

|KMH2

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|60 ka

|Kebara Cave

|A skeleton including cranium.

|File:Neanderthal-burial.gif

Agamenón{{Cite web |date=2019-10-11 |title="Agamenón", el homínido más famoso de Atapuerca, no estaba sordo |url=https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/agamenon-hominido-mas-famoso-atapuerca-no-estaba-sordo_14792 |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=historia.nationalgeographic.com.es |language=es |archive-date=16 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216120401/https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/agamenon-hominido-mas-famoso-atapuerca-no-estaba-sordo_14792 |url-status=live }}

|SH 4

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|430 ka

|Sima de los Huesos

|A cranium.

|

Miguelón{{Cite news |first=Jaime |last=Fernández |work=Tribuna Complutense |date=2008-02-07 |title=El cráneo de Miguelón |lang=es |url=http://www.ucm.es/cont/descargas/prensa/tribuna562.pdf |access-date=2023-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609045143/http://www.ucm.es/cont/descargas/prensa/tribuna562.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-09 }}

|SH 5

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|430 ka

|Sima de los Huesos

|A cranium and mandible.

|File:Homo heidelbergensis-Cranium -5.jpg

Benjamina{{Cite web |title=Benjamina, "la más querida": el fósil de Atapuerca que mostró el paso del afecto al amor |url=https://www.agenciasinc.es/Opinion/Benjamina-la-mas-querida-el-fosil-de-Atapuerca-que-mostro-el-paso-del-afecto-al-amor |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=Agencia SINC |language=es}}

|SH 14

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|430 ka

|Sima de los Huesos

|An infantile cranium.

|

Little Foot{{Cite journal |last1=Clarke |first1=R. J. |last2=Tobias |first2=P. V. |date=1995-07-28 |title=Sterkfontein member 2 foot bones of the oldest South African hominid |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7624772/#:~:text=Possibly%20as%20old%20as%203.5,or%20another%20early%20hominid%20species. |journal=Science |volume=269 |issue=5223 |pages=521–524 |doi=10.1126/science.7624772 |issn=0036-8075 |pmid=7624772 |bibcode=1995Sci...269..521C |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820000733/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7624772/#:~:text=Possibly%20as%20old%20as%203.5,or%20another%20early%20hominid%20species. |url-status=live }}

|StW 573

|

|Australopithecus africanus

|3.67 mya

|Sterkfontein

|A skeleton.

|File:Litte Foot, Skull.JPG

Elvis{{Cite web |title="Elvis" Pelvis - Museo de la Evolución Humana |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/elvis-pelvis-museo-de-la-evoluci%C3%B3n-humana/FAHEtp2fUxcyZg |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en |archive-date=4 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904050745/https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/elvis-pelvis-museo-de-la-evoluci%C3%B3n-humana/FAHEtp2fUxcyZg |url-status=live }}

|Pelvis 1

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|

|Sima de los Huesos

|A pelvis.

|File:Pelvis masculina (Elvis). Sima de los Huesos.jpg

Eurydice{{Cite web |date=1994-01-01 |title=DNH 7 |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/dnh-7 |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |language=en |archive-date=4 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904050746/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/dnh-7 |url-status=live }}

|DNH-7

|

|Paranthropus robustus

|2.04-1.95 mya

|Drimolen

|A cranium and mandible.

|File:DNH7.jpg

Orpheus{{Cite journal |last1=Keyser |first1=A.W. |last2=Menter |first2=C.G. |last3=Moggi-Cecchi |first3=J. |last4=Rayne Pickering |first4=T. |last5=Berger |first5=L.R. |date=2000 |title=Drimolen: a new hominid-bearing site in Gauteng, South Africa |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00382353_8903 |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=96}}

|DNH-8

|

|Paranthropus robustus

|

|Drimolen

|A mandible.

|

Khethi{{Cite journal |last1=Herries |first1=Andy I. R. |last2=Martin |first2=Jesse M. |last3=Leece |first3=A. B. |last4=Adams |first4=Justin W. |last5=Boschian |first5=Giovanni |last6=Joannes-Boyau |first6=Renaud |last7=Edwards |first7=Tara R. |last8=Mallett |first8=Tom |last9=Massey |first9=Jason |last10=Murszewski |first10=Ashleigh |last11=Neubauer |first11=Simon |last12=Pickering |first12=Robyn |last13=Strait |first13=David S. |last14=Armstrong |first14=Brian J. |last15=Baker |first15=Stephanie |date=2020-04-03 |title=Contemporaneity of Australopithecus , Paranthropus , and early Homo erectus in South Africa |journal=Science |language=en |volume=368 |issue=6486 |doi=10.1126/science.aaw7293 |pmid=32241925 |s2cid=214763272 |issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free }}

|DNH 152

|

|Paranthropus robustus

|2.04–1.95 mya

|Drimolen

|

|

Simon{{Cite web |title=Direct human ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought |url=https://phys.org/news/2020-04-human-ancestor-homo-erectus-older.html |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=phys.org |language=en}}

|DNH 134

|

|Homo erectus

|2 mya

|Drimolen

|A neurocranium.

|

Abel{{Cite journal |last1=Brunet |first1=Michel |last2=Beauvilain |first2=Alain |last3=Coppens |first3=Yves |last4=Heintz |first4=Emile |last5=Moutaye |first5=Aladji H. E. |last6=Pilbeam |first6=David |date=1995 |title=The first australopithecine 2,500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad) |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/378273a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=378 |issue=6554 |pages=273–275 |doi=10.1038/378273a0 |pmid=7477344 |bibcode=1995Natur.378..273B |s2cid=4365908 |issn=1476-4687 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=21 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921102912/https://www.nature.com/articles/378273a0 |url-status=live }}

|KT12/H1

|

|Australopithecus bahrelghazali

|3.5 mya

|Koro Toro

|A mandible.

|

Toumaï{{Cite journal |last1=Brunet |first1=Michel |last2=Guy |first2=Franck |last3=Pilbeam |first3=David |last4=Mackaye |first4=Hassane Taisso |last5=Likius |first5=Andossa |last6=Ahounta |first6=Djimdoumalbaye |last7=Beauvilain |first7=Alain |last8=Blondel |first8=Cécile |last9=Bocherens |first9=Hervé |last10=Boisserie |first10=Jean-Renaud |last11=De Bonis |first11=Louis |last12=Coppens |first12=Yves |last13=Dejax |first13=Jean |last14=Denys |first14=Christiane |last15=Duringer |first15=Philippe |date=2002-07-01 |title=A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Natur.418..145B |journal=Nature |volume=418 |issue=6894 |pages=145–151 |doi=10.1038/nature00879 |pmid=12110880 |bibcode=2002Natur.418..145B |s2cid=1316969 |issn=0028-0836 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418023916/https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Natur.418..145B |url-status=live }}

|TM 266-01-060-1

|

|Sahelanthropus tchadensis

|7-6 mya

|Djurab Desert

|A cranium and limb bone

|File:Sahelanthropus tchadensis - TM 266-01-060-1.jpg

Kadanuumuu, Big Man{{Cite web |title=3.6 million-year-old relative of 'Lucy' discovered: Early hominid skeleton confirms human-like walking is ancient |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100621151119.htm |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=ScienceDaily |language=en |archive-date=11 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211000231/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100621151119.htm |url-status=live }}

|KSD-VP-1/1

|

|Australopithecus afarensis

|3.58 mya

|

|

|

Karabo{{Cite web |date=2012-03-25 |title=Australopithecus sediba named by 17-year-old Johannesburg student – News – Origins Centre |url=http://www.origins.org.za/news/entry/australopithecus_sediba_named_by_17-year-old_johannesburg_student/ |access-date=2023-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325202100/http://www.origins.org.za/news/entry/australopithecus_sediba_named_by_17-year-old_johannesburg_student/ |archive-date=2012-03-25 }}

|MH1

|Wits University

|Australopithecus sediba

|1.8 mya

|Malapa Cave

|A partial skeleton.

| rowspan="2" |File:Australopithecus sediba and Lucy.jpg

Issa{{Cite journal |last=Brits |first=Elsabe |date=2021-12-05 |title=Ancient human relative walked like a human, but climbed like an ape |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-021-00117-x |journal=Nature Africa |language=en |doi=10.1038/d44148-021-00117-x|s2cid=244915779 }}

|MH2

|Wits University

|Australopithecus sediba

|1.8 mya

|Malapa Cave

|A partial skeleton.

X-woman

|Denisova 3

|

|Denisovan

|76.2–51.6 ka

|Denisova Cave

|A finger bone.

|File:Denisova Phalanx distalis.jpg

Denny

|Denisova 11

|

|Denisovan x Neanderthal

|118.1–79.3 ka

|Denisova Cave

|Limb fragments.

|File:Denisova-111.jpg

Neo{{Cite journal |last1=Hawks |first1=John |last2=Elliott |first2=Marina |last3=Schmid |first3=Peter |last4=Churchill |first4=Steven E |last5=Ruiter |first5=Darryl J de |last6=Roberts |first6=Eric M |last7=Hilbert-Wolf |first7=Hannah |last8=Garvin |first8=Heather M |last9=Williams |first9=Scott A |last10=Delezene |first10=Lucas K |last11=Feuerriegel |first11=Elen M |last12=Randolph-Quinney |first12=Patrick |last13=Kivell |first13=Tracy L |last14=Laird |first14=Myra F |last15=Tawane |first15=Gaokgatlhe |date=2017-05-09 |editor-last=Perry |editor-first=George H |title=New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa |journal=eLife |volume=6 |pages=e24232 |doi=10.7554/eLife.24232 |issn=2050-084X |pmc=5423776 |pmid=28483039 |doi-access=free }}

|NES1

|

|Homo naledi

|300 kya

|Lesedi Chamber

|A cranium and mandible.

|[[File:Homo naledi LES1 cranium.jpg|frame/ref>

|Vsz II

|Hungarian National Museum

|Homo heidelbergensis?

|325-340 ka

|Vertesszolos

|A fragmentary

|File:Homo erectus palaeohungaricus.JPG

Mystery Skullless|149x149px]]
Mal’ta Boy{{Cite news |date=2013-11-20 |title=24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians (Published 2013) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/science/two-surprises-in-dna-of-boy-found-buried-in-siberia.html |access-date=2023-08-20 |last1=Wade |first1=Nicholas |archive-date=28 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828212139/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/science/two-surprises-in-dna-of-boy-found-buried-in-siberia.html |url-status=live }}

|MA-1

|

|Homo sapiens

|24 ka

|Mal'ta

|Skeleton.

|

Mtoto{{Cite journal |last1=Martinón-Torres |first1=María |last2=d'Errico |first2=Francesco |last3=Santos |first3=Elena |last4=Álvaro Gallo |first4=Ana |last5=Amano |first5=Noel |last6=Archer |first6=William |last7=Armitage |first7=Simon J. |last8=Arsuaga |first8=Juan Luis |last9=Bermúdez de Castro |first9=José María |last10=Blinkhorn |first10=James |last11=Crowther |first11=Alison |last12=Douka |first12=Katerina |last13=Dubernet |first13=Stéphan |last14=Faulkner |first14=Patrick |last15=Fernández-Colón |first15=Pilar |date=2021 |title=Earliest known human burial in Africa |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=593 |issue=7857 |pages=95–100 |doi=10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8 |pmid=33953416 |bibcode=2021Natur.593...95M |hdl=10072/413039 |s2cid=233871256 |issn=1476-4687 |hdl-access=free |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=9 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809012004/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8 |url-status=live }}

|Panga ya Saidi

|

|Homo sapiens

|78 ka

|Panga ya Saidi

|Skeleton, a burial.

|

Vera{{Cite journal |last1=Ruiz |first1=Marta Navazo |last2=Benito-Calvo |first2=Alfonso |last3=Alonso-Alcalde |first3=Rodrigo |last4=Alonso |first4=Pedro |last5=de la Fuente |first5=Héctor |last6=Santamaría |first6=Marta |last7=Santamaría |first7=Claudia |last8=Álvarez-Vena |first8=Adrián |last9=Arnold |first9=Lee J. |last10=Iriarte-Chiapusso |first10=Ma José |last11=Demuro |first11=Martina |last12=Lozano |first12=Marina |last13=Ortiz |first13=José Eugenio |last14=Torres |first14=Trinidad |date=2021-02-15 |title=Late Neanderthal subsistence strategies and cultural traditions in the northern Iberia Peninsula: Insights from Prado Vargas, Burgos, Spain |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=254 |pages=106795 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106795 |bibcode=2021QSRv..25406795R |s2cid=233924074 |issn=0277-3791|doi-access=free |hdl=10259/6203 |hdl-access=free }}

|Prado Vargas 1360

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|54.7-39.8 ka

|Prado Vargas

|

|

Pàus{{Cite journal |date=2014 |title=European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) 4th Annual Meeting |url=https://www.eshe.eu/static/eshe/peshe/PESHE_2014.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution 3 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=20 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320152716/https://www.eshe.eu/static/eshe/peshe/PESHE_2014.pdf |url-status=live }}

|St.n.166623

|

|Homo neanderthalensis

|

|

|

|

La Dame du Cavillon{{Cite web |title=Dame du Cavillon |url=https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/dame-du-cavillon |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle |language=fr |archive-date=5 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405103920/https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/dame-du-cavillon |url-status=live }}

|Barma del Caviglione 1

|

|Homo sapiens

|24 ka

|Cavillon Cave

|Skeleton, a burial.

|

Ötzi the Iceman{{Cite web |date=2015-06-24 |title=The Incredible Age of the Find {{!}} Ötzi - South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology |url=http://www.iceman.it/en/oetzi-age |access-date=2023-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624085502/http://www.iceman.it/en/oetzi-age |archive-date=2015-06-24 }}

|

|South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology

|Homo sapiens

|3300 BC

|Ötztal Alps

|A mummified body.

|File:Otzi-Quinson.jpg

Luzia{{Cite web |date=2007-12-24 |title=WHO WAS FIRST -- Ancient Immigrants Into The Americas - LUZIA WOMAN |url=http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/luzia.html |access-date=2023-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224150030/http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/luzia.html |archive-date=2007-12-24 }}

|Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1

|

|Homo sapiens

|11.5 ka

|Lapa Vermelha

|A fragmentary skeleton.

|File:Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1-Homo Sapiens 11,500 Years Old.jpg

Naia{{cn|date=September 2024}}

|HN5/48

|

|Homo sapiens

|13-12 ka

|Hoyo Negro

|A skeleton.

|

Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi{{Cite news |date=1999-08-25 |title=Body of Ancient Man Found in West Canada Glacier (Published 1999) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/25/world/body-of-ancient-man-found-in-west-canada-glacier.html |access-date=2023-08-20 |last1=Brooke |first1=James |archive-date=3 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240703041234/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/25/world/body-of-ancient-man-found-in-west-canada-glacier.html |url-status=live }}

|None

|

|Homo sapiens

|550–300 years

|Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park

|A mummified body.

|

Anzick Boy{{Cite journal |last1=Rasmussen |first1=Morten |last2=Anzick |first2=Sarah L. |last3=Waters |first3=Michael R. |last4=Skoglund |first4=Pontus |last5=DeGiorgio |first5=Michael |last6=Stafford |first6=Thomas W. |last7=Rasmussen |first7=Simon |last8=Moltke |first8=Ida |last9=Albrechtsen |first9=Anders |last10=Doyle |first10=Shane M. |last11=Poznik |first11=G. David |last12=Gudmundsdottir |first12=Valborg |last13=Yadav |first13=Rachita |last14=Malaspinas |first14=Anna-Sapfo |last15=V |first15=Samuel Stockton White |date=2014 |title=The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=506 |issue=7487 |pages=225–229 |doi=10.1038/nature13025 |issn=1476-4687 |pmc=4878442 |pmid=24522598|bibcode=2014Natur.506..225R }}

|Anzick-1

|

|Homo sapiens

|13-12.85 ka

|Near Wilsall

|A skeleton.

|

Leanderthal Lady{{Cite web |date=2017-09-23 |title=Leander Man Thinks He May Have Found Fossilized Human Skull In Backyard |url=https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/fossils-found-leander-could-be-human |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=Austin, TX Patch |language=en |archive-date=4 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904051405/https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/fossils-found-leander-could-be-human |url-status=live }}

|

|

|Homo sapiens

|13-10 ka

|Wilson-Leonard Brushy Creek Site

|A skeleton.

|

El Graeco{{Cite news |last=Knapton |first=Sarah |date=2017-05-22 |title=Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/ |access-date=2023-08-20 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=22 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522183347/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/ |url-status=live }}

|

|

|Graecopithecus freybergi

|7.2 mya

|Pyrgos Vasilissis

|Dental-mandibular remains.

|File:Graecopithecus (from PLoS ONE).jpg

Madam Buya{{Cite web |title=New Skull from Eritrea - Archaeology Magazine Archive |url=https://archive.archaeology.org/9809/newsbriefs/eritrea.html |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=archive.archaeology.org |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820015518/https://archive.archaeology.org/9809/newsbriefs/eritrea.html |url-status=live }}

|Buia UA 31

|

|Homo erectus

|1 mya

|Afar

|A cranium.

|File:Buia UA31. Homo erectus.jpg

Eve{{Cite journal |last1=Coutinho-Nogueira |first1=Dany |last2=Coqueugniot |first2=Hélène |last3=Tillier |first3=Anne-Marie |date=2021-12-21 |title=Qafzeh 9 Early Modern Human from Southwest Asia: age at death and sex estimation re-assessed |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34505621/ |journal=Homo: Internationale Zeitschrift für die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=293–305 |doi=10.1127/homo/2021/1513 |issn=1618-1301 |pmid=34505621 |s2cid=237469414 |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=23 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240423085254/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34505621/ |url-status=live }}

|Qazeh 9

|

|Homo sapiens

|100–90 ka

|Qafzeh Cave

|A cranium.

|File:Qafzeh.JPG

Besséʼ{{Cite news |last=Lu |first=Donna |date=2021-08-25 |title='Genetic fossil': intact DNA from woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in Indonesia |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia |access-date=2023-08-20 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=4 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904051304/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia |url-status=live }}

|

|

|Homo sapiens

|7200 years

|Leang Panninge cave

|A skeleton.

|File:Besse head.tif

Roger{{Cite web |title=The History Press {{!}} From Boxgrove Man to Stonehenge: England's prehistory explored |url=https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/from-boxgrove-man-to-stonehenge-england-s-prehistory-explored/ |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=www.thehistorypress.co.uk |language=en |archive-date=4 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904051306/https://thehistorypress.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}

|Boxgrove 1

|

|Homo heidelbergensis

|500 ka

|Boxgrove

|Limb and dental fragments.

|File:The Boxgrove Tibia.jpg

Pau{{Cite book |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119179313 |title=The International Encyclopedia of Primatology |date=2016-06-14 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-470-67337-9 |editor-last=Bezanson |editor-first=Michele |edition=1 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0216 |editor-last2=MacKinnon |editor-first2=Katherine C |editor-last3=Riley |editor-first3=Erin |editor-last4=Campbell |editor-first4=Christina J |editor-last5=Nekaris |editor-first5=K. A. I. |editor-last6=Estrada |editor-first6=Alejandro |editor-last7=Di Fiore |editor-first7=Anthony F |editor-last8=Ross |editor-first8=Stephen |editor-last9=Jones-Engel |editor-first9=Lisa E |access-date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=31 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831022228/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119179313 |url-status=live }}

|IPS21350

|

|Pierolapithecus catalaunicus

|12.5-13 mya

|Barranc de Can Vila-1 site

|A skeleton.

|File:Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Kopie).jpg

== Ungulates ==

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Image

Blue Babe

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|University of Alaska Museum

|Steppe Bison

(Bison priscus)

|

|

|

|File:Steppe bison mummy.jpg

Thor{{cite tweet |last=Bamforth |first=Emily |user=EL_Bamforth |number=1275809098596970496 |date=2020-06-24 |title=@TomHoltzPaleo I recognize this beasty! This is 'Thor', a near complete #bronotothere collected near #EastendSK. There are casts of it at the #TrexDiscoveryCentre, @royalsaskmuseum and the @RoyalTyrrell. |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624152534/https://twitter.com/EL_Bamforth/status/1275809098596970496 |archive-date=2020-06-24 |url-status=live}}

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|Megacerops

|Eocene

|

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== Marsupials ==

= Pelycosaurs =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Leidy{{Cite web|title=Natural History {{!}} PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation|url=https://www.peimuseum.ca/about-us/natural-history|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.peimuseum.ca|archive-date=1 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901182057/https://www.peimuseum.ca/about-us/natural-history|url-status=live}}

|

|Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (on loan to Royal Ontario Museum)

|Dimetrodon borealis

|Early Permian, 270 Ma (Artinskian)

|Orby Head Formation

|Named after Joseph Leidy, the original describer of the specimen

|

Reptiles

= Lepidosauria =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Bèr

|

|Maastricht Natural History Museum

|Prognathodon saturator

|

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Bob

|

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|Tylosaurus

|

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Bruce

|

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|Tylosaurus

|

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Brutus

|

|Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleaotology

|Prognathodon overtoni

|

|Korite Ammolite mine, Bearpaw Formation

|Named Brutus to describe the Burly nature of its anatomy.{{cite tweet |author=Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology |author-link=Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology |user=RoyalTyrrell |number=1374021590736805891 |date=2021-03-22 |title=Up next in our #MonikerMonday series is the Prognathodon specimen on display in our Fossils in Focus exhibit. Collected in 2018 from the Korite Ammolite mine in southern Alberta, this mosasaur swam in the Bearpaw Sea during the Late Cretaceous Period. https://t.co/k0uyTGCCkl |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406171644/https://twitter.com/RoyalTyrrell/status/1374021590736805891 |archive-date=2021-04-06 |url-status=live}}

|

Bunker

|KUVP 5033

|University of Kansas Natural History Museum

|Tylosaurus

|

|Niobrara Formation

|

|

Max

|

|

|Tylosaurus

|

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|

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Mister Sinister

|TMP 2008.036.0001

|Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleaotology

|Mosasaurus missouriensis

|Late Campanian; Late Cretaceous

|Bearpaw Formation

|A Juvenile, named after the comic book character Mister Sinister, in reference to its grin.{{cite tweet |author=Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology |author-link=Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology |user=RoyalTyrrell |number=1361341551121637380 |date=2021-02-15 |title=This juvenile Mosasaurus is smaller than many of the marine reptiles in our collection. The specimen preserves gut contents, including a metre-long lizardfish! After death, sharks scavenged the mosasaur. The fossil was recovered from the Korite ammonite mine in 2008. https://t.co/GRZKrE8yOL |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210407140907/https://twitter.com/RoyalTyrrell/status/1361341551121637380 |archive-date=2021-04-07 |url-status=live}}

|

Mushy

|

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Omācīw

|

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|Tylosaurus

|

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|

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Sophie

|

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|Tylosaurus

|

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Suzy

|

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|Tylosaurus

|

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= Pseudosuchians =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Big Bert

|SMNH P2411.1

|Royal Saskatchewan Museum

|Terminonaris robusta

|Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

|Favel Formation

|Most complete specimen of the genus

|

Black Sun{{cite journal |last1=Azarra |first1=Beatrice |last2=Boschian |first2=Giovanni |last3=Brochu |first3=Christopher |last4=Delfino |first4=Massimo |last5=Iurino |first5=Dawid Adam |last6=Kimambo |first6=Jackson Stanley |last7=Manzi |first7=Giorgio |last8=Masao |first8=Fidelis T. |last9=Menconero |first9=Sofia |last10=Njau |first10=Jackson K |last11=Cherin |first11=Marco |year=2021 |title=A new cranium of Crocodylus anthropophagus from Olduvai Gorge, northern Tanzania |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research in Paleontology and Stratigraphy) |volume=127 |issue=2 |pages=275–295 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352560805 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/15771 |s2cid=237962496 }}

|THOR16_100BS

|

|Crocodylus anthropophagus

|Pleistocene

|Olduvai Gorge

|Named due to the fact that it was discovered during an annual solar eclipse on September 1, 2016

|

Edgar{{Cite journal|last1=Patrick|first1=Erin L.|last2=Whiteside|first2=David I.|last3=Benton|first3=Michael J.|year=2019|title=A new crurotarsan archosaur from the Late Triassic of South Wales|url=https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/6/525/files/2019/08/2019Edgar.pdf|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=39|issue=3|pages=e1645147|doi=10.1080/02724634.2019.1645147|bibcode=2019JVPal..39E5147P |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830221411/https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/6/525/files/2019/08/2019Edgar.pdf|archive-date=30 August 2019|s2cid=202848499}}

|NHMUK P9/3a

|Natural History Museum, London

|Aenigmaspina pantyffynnonensis

|Late Triassic (Rhaetian)

|

|

|

Mo

|

|

|Terminonaris ponteixensis

|Late Cretacaeous

|

|

|

Scarface{{Cite journal|last1=Darlim|first1=Gustavo|last2=Montefeltro|first2=Felipe C.|last3=Langer|first3=Max C.|date=2021-04-18|title=3D skull modelling and description of a new baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous (Bauru Basin) of Brazil|journal=Journal of Anatomy|volume=239|issue=3|language=en|pages=622–662|doi=10.1111/joa.13442|pmid=33870512|pmc=8349455|issn=0021-8782}}

|LPRP 0697

|Laboratório de

Paleontologia de Ribeirão Preto

|Aphaurosuchus escharafacies

|Late Cretaceois (Coniacian-Campanian)

|Bauru Group of Vale do Rio do Peixe

Formation

|A cut on the left jugal and dentary made by the rock saw during the collection of the specimen, promptly gave the fossil its nickname “Scarface.”

|

= Pterosauria =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Butch

|AODF 876

|Australian Age of Dinosaurs

|Ferrodraco

|Cenomanian; Late Cretaceous

|Winton Formation

|Holotype of Ferrodraco

|

Dark Wing

|

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|Rhamphorhynchus

|

|

|

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Dracula

|

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|undescribed azhdarchid

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Ian

|

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|undescribed wukongopterid

|

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Mrs. T

|

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|Darwinopterus

|

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|

= Sauropterygia =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Albert{{cite tweet |author=Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology |author-link=Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology |user=RoyalTyrrell |number=1384155139854921732 |date=2021-04-19 |title=Our technician Darren Tanke found this plesiosaur specimen near Manyberries, AB in 2012. The partial skeleton is about 10 metres long, and is currently being studied by Dr. James Campbell. #MonikerMonday https://t.co/BWtA9tbkPy |language=en |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507122224/https://twitter.com/royaltyrrell/status/1384155139854921732 |archive-date=2021-05-07 |url-status=live}}

|

|Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

|possibly Albertonectes

|Late Cretcaeois

|Bearpaw Formation

|Named after Albertonectes, because it might possibly belong to that genus.

|

Britney

|

|

|Ophthalmothule

|Tithonian-Berriasian

|

|

|

Doris

|

|

|Pliosaurus carpenteri

|

|

|

|

Harold{{Cite web |last=Tarlach |first=Gemma |date=2022-09-28 |title=A 'Weird' Ancient Marine Reptile Surfaces Thanks to the 'Bone Biddies' |url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plesiosaur-fossil-wyoming-bone-biddies |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Atlas Obscura |language=en |archive-date=5 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305071604/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plesiosaur-fossil-wyoming-bone-biddies |url-status=live }}

|GPM 5001 {{Cite journal |last1=Persons |first1=W. S. |last2=Street |first2=H. P. |last3=Kelley |first3=A. |year=2022 |title=A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America |journal=iScience |volume=25 |issue=10 |at=105033 |doi=10.1016/j.isci.2022.105033|pmid=36317161 |pmc=9617461 |bibcode=2022iSci...25j5033P }}

|Paleon Museum

|Serpentisuchops pfisterae

|Late Cretaceous, (Lower Maastrichtian)

|Pierre Shale

|

|

Ichabod

|TMP 2007.011.0001

|Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleaotology

|Albertonectes vanderveldei

|Late Campanian; Late Cretaceous

|Bearpaw Formation

|Named after Ichabod Crane from the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, in reference to the missing skull of the specimen.

|

= Misc Reptiles =

class="wikitable"

!Nickname

!Catalogue number

!Institution

!Taxon

!Age

!Unit

!Notes

!Images

Brigitta{{Cite journal|last=Eaton|first=Jeffrey G.|date=1993-03-18|title=Therian mammals from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Dakota Formation, southwestern Utah|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1993.10011491|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=13|issue=1|pages=105–124|doi=10.1080/02724634.1993.10011491|bibcode=1993JVPal..13..105E |issn=0272-4634}}

|

|Natural History Museum, Vienna

|Archelon

|Campanian

|Pierre Shale

|the largest known specimen of Archelon and second largest individual turtle fossil after specimen CIAAP-2002-01 of Stupendemys geographica{{cite journal|last1=Cadena|first1=E.-A.|last2=Scheyer|first2=T.M.|last3=Carrillo-Briceño|first3=J.D.|last4=Sánchez|first4=R.|last5=Aguilera-Socorro|first5=O.A.|last6=Vanegas|first6=A.|last7=Pardo|first7=M.|last8=Hansen|first8=D.M.|last9=Sánchez-Villagra|first9=M.R.|date=12 Feb 2020|title=The anatomy, paleobiology, and evolutionary relationships of the largest extinct side-necked turtle|journal=Science Advances|volume=6|issue=7|page=eaay4593 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.aay4593|pmid=32095528|pmc=7015691|bibcode=2020SciA....6.4593C |doi-access=free}}

|

Delilah

|

|

|Pareisaurus

|

|

|

|

Jim 2{{cite web |url=https://nhm.org/ichthyosaur |title=Ichthyosaur: New Discoveries |author= |website=National History Museum Los Angeles County |date=22 September 2021 |access-date=January 10, 2022 |quote=... While dinosaurs dominated land during the Mesozoic Era (252-66 million years ago), marine reptiles like this giant ichthyosaur—nicknamed Jim 2—ruled the sea. Come see the complete skull on display for the very first time. ...' |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416003408/https://nhm.org/ichthyosaur |url-status=live }}

|LACM DI 157871

|Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

|Cymbospondylus youngorum

|Anisian

|Favret Formation

|holotype specimen of C. youngorum, the largest known member of the genus with a skull length of almost 2 meters {{cite journal |last1=Sander |first1=P.M. |last2=Griebeler| first2=E.M.|last3=Klein|first3=N.|last4=Juarbe| first4=J.V.|last5=Wintrich| first5=T.|last6=Revell| first6=L.J.|last7=Schmitz|first7=L.|year=2021|title=Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans|journal=Science|volume=374|issue=6575|pages=eabf5787 |doi=10.1126/science.abf5787|pmid=34941418 |s2cid=245444783 }}

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Oldie / Gamla

|

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|Keilhauia nui

|

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Arthropods

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Mollusks

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See also

References

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{{cite web |last=Mancini |first=Mark |date=August 29, 2018 |title=How Two Rival Mammoths Lost an Epic Duel 12,000 Years Ago |url=https://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/two-rival-mammoths-lost-epic-duel-12000-years-ago.htm |website=Howstuffworks |access-date=6 April 2021 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304012032/https://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/two-rival-mammoths-lost-epic-duel-12000-years-ago.htm |url-status=live }}

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