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9 unusual facts about Ralph Molnar


Austrosaurus

However, a recent reappraisal of material by Ralph Molnar has found that it, and the newer remains of 'Eliot', are titanosaurid, as various features on the vertebrae show.

Becklespinax

According to Ralph Molnar the two spines closest to the skull are ankylosed or fused.

Kakuru

Kakuru was formally named in 1980 by Pledge and Ralph Molnar.

Labocania

The type species, Labocania anomala, was described and named by Ralph Molnar in 1974.

Mythunga

Mythunga was described by Ralph Molnar and R. A. Thulborn in 2008, and provisionally thought to be related to plesiomorphic, and thus possibly basal, pterodactyloids.

Ozraptor

Re-evaluation of the bone in the nineties after being prepared out of the rock by John Albert Long and Ralph Molnar showed that it actually was the shinbone of some sort of theropod.

Poekilopleuron

A second probable manual phalanx exhibits a "low rounded projection resembling a callus." Ralph Molnar considered the occurrence of three pathologies in one individual to be "noteworthy".

Ralph Molnar

Ralph E. Molnar is a paleontologist who had been Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum and more recently associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Walgettosuchus

In his 1990 review, Ralph Molnar noted that the type cannot be distinguished from tail vertebrae from ornithomimids or allosaurids, and considered it to be an indeterminate theropod and a nomen dubium or (more likely) an invalid taxon.



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