Proceratosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the

Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The holotype and only known

specimen (pictured) consists of a mostly complete skull with an

accompanying lower jaw and a hyoid bone, found near Minchinhampton, a

town in Gloucestershire. It was originally described as a species of

Megalosaurus, M. bradleyi, in 1910, but was moved to its own genus in

1926. The genus was named after a supposed close relationship with

Ceratosaurus, later shown to be erroneous, due to the presence of an

incomplete cranial crest considered to resemble Ceratosaurus's nasal

horn. Proceratosaurus is now considered to be one of the oldest members

of Tyrannosauroidea (the broader group that includes the tyrannosaurids,

including Tyrannosaurus). During the Bathonian age when Proceratosaurus

lived, Britain and the rest of Western Europe formed a subtropical

island archipelago, with contemporary dinosaurs including stegosaurs,

Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1745:

Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard at

Glenfinnan, Scotland, in an attempt to regain the British throne for his

father, beginning the Jacobite rising of 1745.

1897:

The Bersey Electric Cab entered service as the first electric

taxi in London.

1920:

Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate began a

rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.

2005:

Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least

three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

adjuvant:

1. (formal) Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative,

helpful.

2. (immunology) Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also,

containing a substance having such an effect.

3. (medicine) Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional,

supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given

after removal of a primary tumour.

4. (formal) Someone or (more commonly) something that assists,

facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.]

5.

6. (agriculture) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances

the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect

itself.

7. (immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.

8. (medicine) A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or

supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of

another.

9. (pharmacology, archaic) An additive which aids or modifies the action

of the principal ingredient of a drug.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly

distressing, But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of

wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing. The only

incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure,

Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are

poor.  

--Ogden Nash

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