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- Megalosaurus William Buckland, 1824 [1]
- "big reptile", originally believed to be a giant reptile, or lizard, about 40 feet long
- a theropod
- Iguanodon Gideon Mantell, 1825 [1]
- "iguana tooth", first identified from teeth which resembled those of the modern plant-eating iguana
- an ornithopod
- Hylaeosaurus, 1833 [1]
- fossils from southern England
- an ankylosaur
- Thecodontosaurus Henry Riley and [[William Stutchbury]], 1836 [1]
- from the Triassic, a prosauropod (basal sauropodomorphs)
- Plateosaurus Hermann von Meyer, 1837 [1]
- from the Triassic, a prosauropod (basal sauropodomorphs)
- Cetiosaurus Richard Owen, 1841 [2]
- a sauropod
- Archaeopteryx lithographica Meyer, 1860 [3]
- "ancient wing from the lithographic limestone", from a fossilized feather found in a limestone quarry with rock dated to the Jurassic (now dated ~150 million years old)
- Compsognathus, a small theropod [4]
- Hadrosaurus Joseph Leidy, 1858 [5]
- from a nearly complete skeleton of a large plant-eating dinosaur from Haddonfield, New Jersey
- Allosaurus, Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus), Camarasaurus (short-snouted sauropod), Camptosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Diplodocus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops
- Apatosaurus louisae [6]
- discovered by Earl Douglass and W.J. Holland in 1909; named in honor of Andrew Carnegie's wife
- Diplodocus carnegiei [7]
- named by Holland in honor of Andrew Carnegie
People[edit]
- William Buckland (1784–1856), a professor of geology at the University of Oxford and dean of Christ Church [1]
- Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790–1852), a country physician in Sussex and collector of Mesozoic fossils [1]
- [[William Stutchbury]], from Bristol, SW England [1]
- Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), from southern Germany,[1] father of German vertebrate paleontology
- Richard Owen (1804–1892), professor of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in London [2]
- Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania [5]
Notes[edit]
- The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs (2000), p. 13
- Ibid., p. 14
- Ibid., p. 19
- Ibid., p. 20
- Ibid., p. 21
- Ibid., p. 26
- Ibid., p. 27
Definitions[edit]
- http://www.briancoad.com/Dictionary/abbreviations.htm
- http://personal2.stthomas.edu/jstweet/index.htm good dino index
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