Nomina nuda

term used in nomenclature (not a name)

alt= |thumb |The "Archaeoraptor" fossil in the Paleozoological Museum of China "Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil chimera from China in an article published in National Geographic magazine in 1999. The magazine claimed that the fossil was a "missing link" between birds and terrestrial theropod dinosaurs. Even before this publication, there had been severe doubts about the fossil's authenticity. Further scientific study showed it to be a forgery constructed from rearranged pieces of real fossils from different species. Zhou et al. found that the head and upper body belong

species of amphibian

species of amphibian

species of plant

nothospecies of plant

species of plant

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