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]

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