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Fossils of Denmark

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Dromaeosauroides
Dromaeosauroides is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Denmark and possibly also England. It was discovered in the Jydegaard Formation in the Robbedale valley, on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This formation ranges from the Berriasian to the Valanginian ages. This is the only likely place for dinosaur remains to be discovered on Danish territory, since the Mesozoic deposits exposed in the rest of the country are marine. Dromaeosauroides is the first known dinosaur from Denmark, and the only one which has been scientifically named. It
Baculites
Baculites is an extinct genus of heteromorph ammonite cephalopods with almost straight shells. The genus, which lived worldwide throughout most of the Late Cretaceous, and which briefly survived the K-Pg mass extinction event, was named by Lamarck in 1799.
Palaeophis
Palaeophis ('ancient snake') is an extinct genus of marine snake that is the type genus of the extinct snake family Palaeophiidae.
Eosphargis
Eosphargis (from Greek eos, meaning "dawn", and sphargis, the Greek word for the leatherback turtle) is an extinct genus of sea turtles from the late Paleocene and early Eocene of western Europe and eastern North America. It is a member of the family Dermochelyidae, which also includes the modern leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), of which it is the earliest known definitive member.
Aigialosuchus
Aigialosuchus is an extinct genus of long-snouted crocodylomorph that lived in what is now Sweden during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period. The name Aigialosuchus comes from the Greek αἰγιαλός (aigialos), meaning "seashore", and σοῦχος (souchus), meaning "crocodile". The genus contains a single species, A. villandensis, described in 1959 by Per Ove Persson based on material recovered from the Kristianstad Basin in southern Sweden.
Eocypselus
Eocypselus is a genus of prehistoric birds related to modern hummingbirds and swifts. Five species of Eocypselus are currently known. Compared with modern apodiforms, it may have been a better percher with shorter wing feathers, and it might have been nocturnal.
Olenus
fossil genus of trilobites
Ypresiomyrma
Ypresiomyrma is an extinct genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmeciinae that was described in 2006. There are four species described; one species is from the Isle of Fur in Denmark, two are from the McAbee Fossil Beds in British Columbia, Canada, and the fourth from the Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya fossil site in Russia. The queens of this genus are large, the mandibles are elongated and the eyes are well developed; a stinger is also present. The behaviour of these ants would have been similar to that of extant Myrmeciinae ants, such as solitary foraging for arthropod prey and never leaving pheromone