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Fossils have long been excavated in [[Yonderre]] due to mining, particularly in places like the [[Black Forest]] and [[Vollardic Mountains]], now recognized as the extreme north of the [[Greater Levantine Formation]]. Prior to academics taking an interest in these fossils, they were variously thought of as petrified bones of various animals, monsters of folklore or even Biblical giants. Many finds from the pre-modern period that survive into present day are now recognized as remains of archosaurs, cephalopods, icthyosaurs, mammals and other pre-Holocene fauna. | Fossils have long been excavated in [[Yonderre]] due to mining, particularly in places like the [[Black Forest]] and [[Vollardic Mountains]], now recognized as the extreme north of the [[Greater Levantine Formation]]. Prior to academics taking an interest in these fossils, they were variously thought of as petrified bones of various animals, monsters of folklore or even Biblical giants. Many finds from the pre-modern period that survive into present day are now recognized as remains of archosaurs, cephalopods, icthyosaurs, mammals and other pre-Holocene fauna. | ||
Spurred on by Mantelleaux's discoveries in the 1830s, Yonderian polymath [[Killian Lange]] (1799-1870) mounted his own expedition to the mountains of the [[Black Forest]] in 1834. The small team Lange paid for out of his own pocket turned up countless fossiles of flora and fauna from after the {{wpl|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event}}. Another expedition in the [[Vollardic Mountains]] in 1840 uncovered sparse remains of ''[[Vollardisaurus]]'', which became the first theropod and fourth dinosaur ever named when Lange published his findings in 1842.<ref>Lange, Killian: ''Of Vollardisaurus and dinosauria, their traits and their life'', [[University of Collinebourg]]. 1842.</ref> While on a dig in 1845 in Azikor, [[Kiravia]], Lange discovered the first fossil remains of the early rodent ''[[Rattusfukus]]'', an animal speculated to be the {{wpl|Most recent common ancestor|most recent common ancestor}} of all rodents.<ref>Lange, Killian: ''Rattusfukus, a rat-like mammal from Azikor,'' [[University of Collinebourg]]. 1847.</ref> Lange soon took up a lecturate at the [[University of Collinebourg]] teaching the very first classes of | Spurred on by Mantelleaux's discoveries in the 1830s, Yonderian polymath [[Killian Lange]] (1799-1870) mounted his own expedition to the mountains of the [[Black Forest]] in 1834. The small team Lange paid for out of his own pocket turned up countless fossiles of flora and fauna from after the {{wpl|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event}}. Another expedition in the [[Vollardic Mountains]] in 1840 uncovered sparse remains of ''[[Vollardisaurus]]'', which became the first theropod and fourth dinosaur ever named when Lange published his findings in 1842.<ref>Lange, Killian: ''Of Vollardisaurus and dinosauria, their traits and their life'', [[University of Collinebourg]]. 1842.</ref> While on a dig in 1845 in Azikor, [[Kiravia]], Lange discovered the first fossil remains of the early rodent ''[[Rattusfukus]]'', an animal speculated to be the {{wpl|Most recent common ancestor|most recent common ancestor}} of all rodents.<ref>Lange, Killian: ''Rattusfukus, a rat-like mammal from Azikor,'' [[University of Collinebourg]]. 1847.</ref> Lange soon took up a lecturate at the [[University of Collinebourg]] teaching the very first classes of paleontology in [[Yonderre]]. Lange was an early adopter and proponent of [[Carl-Auguste d'Arvinne]]'s theories of evolution, a controversial stance even in the scientific communities of the time whose stance was of the biblical inclination that all creatures were created simultaneously. | ||
===Golden age of paleontology=== | ===Golden age of paleontology=== | ||
===Dinosaur renaissance=== | ===Dinosaur renaissance=== | ||