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Sometimes you find some prehistoric animal names difficult, even almost unpronounceable. This difficulty is due to the complicated naming of prehistoric animals, such as Opisthocoelicaudia. Photos/Wikimedia
This difficulty is due to the complicated naming of prehistoric animals, such as Opisthocoelicaudia or Dolichorhynchops. Below are the 7 most difficult to pronounce early prehistoric animal species names and how to pronounce them, summarized from the thoughtco page, Saturday (7/1/2023).
1. Allaeochelys
This prehistoric turtle made headlines when paleontologists identified nine separate male and female specimens that fossilized during mating. That’s not all that concerns, due to the difficult pronunciation of its name, which is pronounced AH-lah-ee-OCK-ell-is or AH-la-EE-oh-KELL-iss.
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2. Epidexipterix
Evolutionarily speaking, Epidexipteryx only existed to make the closely related Archeopteryx sound easier to pronounce. Why, “dino-bird” is quite difficult to pronounce Epidexipteryx (EP-ih-dex-IP-teh-ricks) which is Greek for “show feathers”. Epidexipteryx may have been an important link in the evolution of ancient dinosaurs and modern birds.
3. Huehuecanauhtlus
Huehuecanauhtlus was a duck-billed dinosaur which translates to “ancient duck” in the Aztec language. One of the Huehuecanauhtlus “type fossils” found in Mexico, the origin of the Aztec civilization, is nearly impossible for anyone to pronounce or pronounce. Huehuecanauhtlus is pronounced (WAY-way-can-OUT-luss).
4. Onikonikteris