ERTH 2401 Lecture 7: History of Dinosaur Research

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ERTH 2401
• Professor: Claudia Schröder-Adams

Document Summary

1800: pterosaurs have the one elongated finger where the membrane is capped and goes back to the body. Anyone who uses these maps has an easier time finding fossils then without them: every formation that you coin is related to a geological time. The time scale needed to be invented as well (in terms of vertibrates) more strange fossil reptiles are discovered in england . When we lost the dinosaurs the mammals evolved and grew larger: (cid:862)the great ea drago(cid:374)s as the(cid:455) li(cid:448)ed(cid:863) Illustrations also evolved over time: megalosaurus, 1810s jaw and teeth discovered in england, 1824 william buckland publishes the first scientific paper naming a dinosaur, megalosaurus still a valid genus based on this material (benson et al. Iguanodon: 1825 name published by gideon mantell, based on a few teeth and bones from england. Later scientists redefined the name to be based on complete skeletons found in. Belgium in 1878: found a whole herd in coal seem in belgium.