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- adjective
Jones (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Jones's ..."
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The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.
Archive 2009-01-25 Bill Crider 2009
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State Dinosaur of Texas for the very first time: Paluxysaurus jonesi.
Top Story 2010
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The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send Pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.
San Antonio News 2009
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Paluxysaurus jonesi is believed to have lived 112 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the legislature last month that seeks to send pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.
FOXNews.com 2009
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After tinkering with the name, he settled on incorporating Paluxy and stamped the species as jonesi, in a tribute to the Jones Ranch and its rich collection of fossils.
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Rose determined it was a different dinosaur altogether - a previously unrecognized genus and species he named Paluxysaurus jonesi, after W.W. Jones, the owner of the land on which the fossils were found.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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State Rep. Charles Geren of Fort Worth filed a resolution Jan. 7 to change the name of the state dinosaur from Pleurocoelus to Paluxysaurus jonesi to correctly name the massive sauropod whose tracks and bones litter the central Texas Jones Ranch.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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After tinkering with the name, he settled on incorporating Paluxy and stamped the species as jonesi, in a tribute to the Jones Ranch and its rich collection of fossils.
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The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send Pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.
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