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Afromaimetsha robusta is an extinct species of wasp which existed in Botswana during the late Cretaceous period, and the only species in the genus Afromaimetsha.
Andyrossia is an extinct genus of wasp known from the Late Cretaceous Weald Clay of southern England, containing a single species, Andyrossia joyceae.
Thirteen hundred hectares of vineyards are cultivated—all located around Klöch, Sankt Anna am Aigen and Straden and situated primarily on the slopes of the extinct volcanoes which characterize the landscape.
In the past they were also hunted by the now extinct Caspian tiger.
The Southampton title had previously been created for Charles FitzRoy, eldest natural son of Charles II and the Duchess of Cleveland and the elder brother of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, but had become extinct in 1774 on the death of his son William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland and 2nd Duke of Southampton, six years before the creation of the barony of Southampton.
Apart from the Rift Valley itself, the area has other important geographic features such as: the extinct volcanoes Mount Longonot and Mount Suswa and Lake Baringo, Lake Bogoria, Lake Magadi, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, the Suguta Valley, and Lake Turkana.
When the Ortenburg dynasty became extinct in 1418, their possessions passed to the Counts of Celje.
After the death of the 4th Earl of Camperdown in 1933, the earldom became extinct, and Camperdown was inherited by a cousin, Georgiana, widow of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire.
Cascoplecia, commonly known as the unicorn fly, is a monotypic genus of extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous.
Basilosaurus cetoides and Zygorhiza, early toothed whales, as well as Protosiren, an extinct ancestor of the Manatee, inhabit these waters and are the earliest mammal fossils uncovered with specimens from Citrus County in dolomite ~40—37 Ma.
The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island.
City Point, Virginia, an extinct town (now a portion of Hopewell, Virginia)
Dryopithecus fontani is an extinct ape that was first discovered in Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne, France, in the 19th century, and was dated to the middle Miocene.
Therefore, Mammuthus primigenius is the only extinct Proboscidea which consistently provides high quality, carvable ivory.
The species was thought extinct until Reinhardt confirmed it was alive when he described a large pod at the Kiel Bay in 1861.
The origin of the Bindenschild has not been conclusively established, it possibly derived from the Styrian margraves of the Otakar noble family, who themselves may have adopted the colours from the descendants of the Carinthian duke Adalbero (ruled 1011–1035), a scion of the House of Eppenstein extinct in 1122.
Many of these drawings show species which are extinct today, like the Lord Howe Swamphen or the Lord Howe Pigeon from Lord Howe Island.
When the House of Bar, which ruled in Upper Lorraine, became extinct in 1033, with the death of his cousin Frederick III, Conrad made him duke of both duchies, so that he could assist in the defence of the territory against Odo II, count of Blois, Meaux, Chartres, and Troyes (the later Champagne).
Haptopoda is an extinct arachnid order known exclusively from only eight specimens from the Upper Carboniferous of Coseley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
He was created duc de Candale in 1621, but that title became extinct upon his death and his brother Bernard succeeded him as the 8th Comte de Candale.
Kamakã languages, a small family of extinct Macro-Jê languages of Bahía near Brazil's Atlantic coast
Hesse-Marburg (line extinct in 1604, incorporated into Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt) to Louis IV
By this time, he had become fascinated with the extinct and only semi-deciphered Tangut script, and in 1960 he decided to move to Yinchuan in Ningxia, the former capital of the Tangut Empire, to devote himself to Tangut studies, but his wife was unwilling to accompany him, so they divorced.
Metriorhynchus potens, an extinct Late Jurassic metriorhynchid crocodile species
Many species became extinct in the early 1920s, including the Laysan Rail (which survived on other islands afterwards but soon became extinct there as well), the Laysan Millerbird, and the Laysan Fan Palm.
The Marianne White-eye formerly considered as subspecies of Mayotte White-eye occurred on Marianne and perhaps other islands in the Seychelles but is now extinct.
As the last remaining home of the near-extinct Seychelles Warbler and as an important breeding site for seabirds, Cousin was purchased by the International Council for Bird Preservation (which later became Birdlife International) in 1968, and established as a nature reserve.
The sedentary varieties include Sawaq (Tasawaq) in northern Niger (with two dialects, Ingelsi in In-Gall and the extinct Emghedeshie of Agadez) and Korandje far to the north, 150 km east of the Algerian–Moroccan border at Tabelbala.
The early Spanish colonists referred to beaver as "nutria", perhaps because the Eurasian beaver had been extinct in Spain since the 17th century.
He ruled Thurgau until 736, when with the death of Hugbert of Bavaria the older line of the Agilofing became extinct and he inherited the rulership of Bavaria, which he held until his death in 748.
Hoyle's Official Book of Games notwithstanding, the "extinct" game of Bestia (game) is still played every Friday night at this venerable institution.
It was home to the giant Wood's Cycad (Encephalartos woodii) which has been extinct in the wild since the early 1900s.
Crocodylus mindorensis was considered locally extinct in part of its former range in Northern Luzon until a live specimen was caught in San Mariano, Isabela in 1999.
Advocates of a Province of El Bierzo wish also to annex the territories of Valdeorras (currently in the Province of Ourense), plus (from within the province of León) Laciana and the part of La Cabrera that formed a part of the extinct province but is not in the ambit of the present regional council
Psamateia is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Psamateia calipsa, which is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
The author of over 600 scientific articles, he also wrote such books as Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913 and Oceanic Birds of South America. In 1951, Murphy led the expedition that rediscovered the Bermuda Petrel, or cahow, a bird believed to have been extinct for 330 years.
The title song refers to attempts by biologists to reintroduce red wolves into areas in the Southeastern United States where they had become locally extinct.
The evidence provided by an analysis of the Misumalpan language family, to which the Mayangna languages belong and which also includes Miskitu and the extinct Matagalpan and Cacaopera tongues once spoken in the Nicaraguan highlands and southern El Salvador, indicates the continuous presence of these groups in the region from around 2000BC.
A related species, the North Island Takahē (P. mantelli) or mōho is extinct and only known from skeletal remains.
In Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the D'Urberville family was based on the now extinct Tuberville Family of Bere Regis in Dorset
It was founded with the TV and TV Daybreak National extinct in 2007, and the newspaper Correio Braziliense.
Ulfstand was a Danish, mostly Scanian, noble family, known since the 14th century and extinct in the male line in 1637.
A number of extinct plants and insects were named in honor of Wehr including Osmunda wehrii, Wessiea yakimaensis, Pseudolarix wehrii, and Cretomerobius wehri.
Stafford was attainted and the family lost the title; the title of Baron Stafford was returned to the Howard line in 1824 with the attainder being reversed but the title of Viscount was extinct as there were no male heirs.
During the lifetime of his father, William had already received the Principality of Hanau, south of the Hessian territories near Frankfurt, as successor of its newly extinct princes.
The Hildyard family of Winestead became extinct on the death of Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard, Bart., who died without heirs in 1814.
Sinoto's Lorikeet (Vini sinotoi), an extinct parrot species in the Marquesas Islands and Sir Yosihiko Sinoto, a hybrid variety of hibiscus, are both named for him.
Záparo is a nearly extinct language from the borderlands of Peru, spoken by only one person out of an ethnic population of 170, in the Pastaza Province, between the Curaray River and Bobonaza Rivers, as of 2000.