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The Origins of Dinosaur Studies ...or 'who started the dinosaur addiction' |
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Megalosaurus. The first named lizard who would later claim the name 'Dinosaur'. Described in 1824 by William Buckland in his work Great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield' |
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Iguanodon. Gideon Mantell described this 'Beast' in 1825 in his work 'Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered Reptile from...Sussex. |
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Mantell's 'The Wonders of Geology' from 1838. This work stirred the imaginations of the public. Megalosaurus and his kin were Biblical monsters and midieval dragons displayed as masters of the world. |
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In 1854 Richard Owen published Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World. Megalosaurus was portrayed less as a symbol of 'good and evil' and more as a part of nature... an enormous bear-like predatory reptile. |
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This is it! From Richard Owen's paper in 1841 The first mention of 'Dinosauria'. From the Report on British Fossil Reptilia. Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science....the rest is History. |
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Return to the World Paleontological Society |
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