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5 unusual facts about George Olshevsky


Becklespinax

In 1991 for this reason a new genus, Becklespinax, was named by George Olshevsky, in honour of the original discoverer, Beckles.

George Olshevsky

While compiling the Marvel Indices, he "produced some 60 fully illustrated books, totaling more than a million and a quarter words," producing indices to all the major Marvel Superheroes (including Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Marvel Team-Up, etc.

Ponerosteus

It was renamed Ponerosteus exogyrarum (species name amended) by George Olshevsky in 2000; however, the taxon is considered a nomen dubium by most, as the type material is extremely poor, being apparently an internal cast of a tibia from an animal that may or may not be a dinosaur.

Sangonghesaurus

Some researchers (George Olshevsky) suspect that it is actually an early name for Tianchisaurus.

Uniform tessellation

George Olshevsky, Uniform Panoploid Tetracombs, Manuscript (2006) (Complete list of 11 convex uniform tilings, 28 convex uniform honeycombs, and 143 convex uniform tetracombs)



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