GEOLGY 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: John Bell Hatcher, Dinosaur Renaissance, Deinonychus
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The scientific study of dinosaurs began in england during the 1820s. The 1st dinosaur to be described scientifically was the megalosaurus named by. Two years earlier gideon mantell discovered dinosaur teeth and boons is. Mantell named those fossils iguanodon, because they resembled teeth of a living iguana. Hylaeosaurus: an early cretaceous ankylosaur from europe. Fragments of fossils belonging to the hylaeosaurus was located by mantell in 1833. Richard owen was a comparative anatomist who worked for most of his career at the royal college of surgeons and later in the british museum. Owen coined the term dinosauria from the greek roots deinos terrible (owen actually meant fearfully great ) and sauros, lizard or reptile. Owen characterized dinosaurs as having teeth set in bony sockets, large sacra comprised of five fused vertebrae, ribs with two heads , a complex shoulder girdle, long hollow limb, bones, and mammal like feet. Benjamin waterhouse hawkins was an artist and sculptor who worked alongside owen.
