The original specimen is the holotype of the genus, BSP No. AS. I. 739.

Short crested P. longiceps holotype specimen YPM1177, now interpreted as a female individual

That same year, in a subsequent letter to the same journal, he made the original large specimen, TMM 41450-3, the holotype of a new genus and species, Quetzalcoatlus northropi.

The holotype specimen of Q. northropi has yet to be properly described and diagnosed.

The fossil was subsequently described as Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus and is the type specimen ( holotype ) of the species, which itself is the type species of the genus.

The holotype specimen of Dimorphodon macronyx found by Mary Anning in 1828

Articulated holotype of S. stenops ( USNM 4934 ), known as the " road kill " specimen

Although named by Marsh in 1887 ( including the holotype specimen ), the disarticulated bones were actually collected in 1879 by Edward Ashley at Como Bluff, Wyoming.

For example, the holotype for the butterfly Lycaeides idas longinus is a preserved specimen of that species, held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Even if a better specimen is subsequently found, the holotype is not superseded.

Modern Holotype label. The procedures for the designation of a new type specimen when the original is lost come into play for some recent, high-profile species descriptions in which the specimen designated as the holotype was a living individual that was allowed to remain in the wild ( e. g. a new species of capuchin monkey, genus Cebus or the Arunachal macaque Macaca munzala ).

Remarkably, the Code explicitly states that the designation of a neotype must be based upon an actual physical specimen that is " the property of a recognized scientific or educational institution ", but there is no such requirement for a holotype.

The type species of Rhamphorhynchus is R. longicaudus ; its type specimen or holotype also was sold to the Teylers Museum, where it still resides as TM 6924.

The holotype specimen, IGM 100 / 11, consists of a partial skeleton including the skull and lower jaws.

This particular specimen is the holotype for that species ; the name Circus assimilis refers, by definition, to the species of that particular specimen.

There may be more than one type specimen, but there is ( at least in modern times ) only one holotype.

When a single specimen is clearly designated in the original description, this specimen is known as the holotype of that species.

A neotype is a specimen later selected to serve as the single type specimen, when an original holotype has been lost or destroyed or where the original author never cited a specimen.

In botanical nomenclature, a syntype is defined as " any specimen cited in the protologue when there is no holotype, or any one of two or more specimens simultaneously designated as types.

The various types listed above are necessary because many species were described one or two centuries ago, when a single type specimen, a holotype, was often not designated.

The elephant – or rather its statuette in the Natural History Museum – was made holotype of Richard Lydekker's proposed subspecies ( Loxodonta africana rothschildi ) for the large elephants of the eastern Sahel.

* Stegosaurus stenops, meaning " narrow-faced roof lizard ", was named by Marsh in 1887, with the holotype having been collected by Marshal Felch at Garden Park, north of Cañon City, Colorado, in 1886.

The holotype was found in Montana.

The holotype of Haikouichthys ercaicunensis was found in the Yuansshan member of the Qiongzhusi Formation in the ' Eoredlichia ' Zone near Haikou at Ercaicun, Kunming City, Yunnan, China, hence its name " Haikou fish from Ercaicun ".

By 1942, and the publication of the influential Lull-Wright monograph on duckbills, its holotype was regarded as " typical of all the genera of hadrosaurian dinosaur ", except for the roughened margin that gave it its name, and that they regarded as due to the tooth having not been used ( p. 149 ).

A holotype is a single physical example ( or illustration ) of an organism, known to have been used when the species ( or lower-ranked taxon ) was formally described.

In the absence of a holotype ( e. g. it was lost ) another type may be selected, out of a range of different kinds of type, depending on the case.

For example in both the ICBN and the ICZN a " neotype " is a type that was later appointed in the absence of the original holotype.

The holotype was found in loose earth near the roots of a banyan tree of Badakuda island of Chilika lagoon in 1917.

That species was named and described by Jardine and Selby in 1828, and the holotype was placed in the museum collection so that other scientists might refer to it as necessary.

A syntype is any one of two or more specimens that is listed in a species description where no holotype was designated ; historically, syntypes were often explicitly designated as such, and under the present Code this is a requirement, but modern attempts to publish species description based on syntypes are generally frowned upon by practicing taxonomists, and most are gradually being replaced by lectotypes.

The holotype NHMUK R. 3915, was excavated from the Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation dating from the Carnian-Norian stage.

The 1916 female was designated the holotype and preserved with the male in Kuroda's collection.

The holotype, IPFUB Gui Th 1, was found in a layer of the Alcobaça Formation dating from the early Kimmeridgian, about 155 million years old.

* M. constructus Young, 1954: ( Type species ) The holotype specimen, represented by a partial skeleton and was long.

The holotype fossil was found in Town Cave in South Australia.

Leidy named the holotype specimen of Hadrosaurus foulkii, which was recovered from the marl pits of Haddonfield, New Jersey.

The holotype is a complete and perfectly preserved skeleton of an adult specimen which was uncovered in September 1984 and which can be found at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.

A pigmented area in the abdomen of the holotype has been suggested as possible traces of organs, and was interpreted as the liver by John Ruben and colleagues, which they described as part of a crocodilian-like " hepatic piston " respiratory system.

Following the discovery of the holotype, additional Lower Cambrian fossils of Haikouichthys ercaicunensis have been discovered.

The holotype specimen of Protoavis ( TTU P 9200 ), the paratype ( TTU P 9201 ), and all referred materials, were discovered in the Dockum Group, from the panhandle of Texas.

An assessment supported by a particularly large Ceratosaurus specimen from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry ( UMNH 5278 ), discovered in the mid-1960s, which may have been long assuming similar proportions to the holotype.

The holotype and paratype ( OMNH 10146 and OMNH 10147 ), discovered in the early 1940s and described at the same time in 1950, consist of two partial skeletons and a piece of skull material from the Antlers Formation in Oklahoma.

With the holotype being destroyed during World War II, a 1. 6 m ( 5. 25 ft ) long Carcharodontosaurus skull lacking premaxilla ( SGM-Din 1 ), discovered in the Kem Kem Formation of Morocco in 1995 by paleontologist Paul Sereno, was designated the neotype.

Paleontologist Lawrence Morris Lambe discovered the first specimen ( the holotype ) in 1902 and proposed the name Stereocephalus.

The holotype, MCP 3844-PV, a well-preserved semi-articulated postcranial skeleton, was discovered in mid-summer at Sanga da Alemoa, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, in the geopark of Paleorrota.

The type ( and only ) specimen of Atrociraptor, holotype RTMP 95. 166. 1, was discovered by Wayne Marshall in 1995, in layers of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, near Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.

The holotype specimen, ZPal MgD-I / 6, was discovered on the desert surface in sandstone dating to the early Maastrichtian.

The Bambiraptor holotype had with 14 cm³ the largest brain for its size of any dinosaur yet discovered, although the brain size may be due to its age, because juvenile animals tend to have larger brain-to-body ratios compared to adults.

The first fossils, among them the holotype PLV 2571, a thigh bone, were in the late sixties discovered by Bonaparte in the Lagarcito Formation, situated in the San Luis Province of Patagonia, Argentina, and dating from the Albian.

The species name commemorates Clarence Raver of Wakeman, Ohio, U. S., who discovered the concretion the holotype was found in.

The holotype was discovered at Tukeit Hill, below Kaieteur Falls, Guyana, hence the common English name.