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Cretaceous crocodile named after Kipling

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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    For a second there I thought it was going to be named after biscuit mogul Mister Kipling which would have enraged me!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Galvasean wrote: »
    For a second there I thought it was going to be named after biscuit mogul Mister Kipling which would have enraged me!

    Goniopholis french fancii ??

    Goniopholis cherry bakewellii??

    :pac::pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    What an exceedingly well preserved fossil find...


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Filling and satisfying for certain, but another awful name for a creature.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Filling and satisfying for certain, but another awful name for a creature.

    Well, Goniopholis is kind of a classic... It could be much, much worst :S I mean, Unescoceratops, really?


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