GEL 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gideon Mantell, Georgian Era, Mary Anning
History of Dinosaur Research
1. When/Where were dinosaurs first found and how were they perceived?
a. First large reptiles found in UK by Mary Anning 1799-1847
i. Lived through Georgian Era and Victorian Era
ii. Coied the phase she sells seashells y the seashoe
iii. Lived in Lyme Regis, Dorset UK
iv. Found first Ichthyosaurian skull
v. Many rich people came to look and buy her findings
b. William Buckland: found first dinosaur in 1824
i. Also found hyena remains in cave
2. What were the first 3 dinosaurs and who found them?
a. William Buckland found the Megalosaurus 1824
i. From late Jurassic. Theropoda
ii. Also found some of its hip bones
b. Gideon Mantell and Mary Ann Mantell
i. Discovered 2nd dinosaur and 3rd dinosaur
ii. Iguanodon 1825
1. From early cretaceous. Ornithopoda
iii. Hylaeosaurus 1833
1. From early cretaceous. Ankylosauria
3. Who named Dinosauria? Why?
a. Richard Owen named Dinosauria 1842
i. Based on at least 5 fused vertebrae
ii. They had their limbs under the body
iii. Teestial, ot auati sepaate fo May Aig’s fidigs
4. Who were early American dinosaur workers?
a. Joseph Leidy described first American dinosaur
i. Hadrosaurus Foulkii
b. Boe Wa
i. Edward Drinker Cope
ii. Charles Othniel Marsh
5. When was the turning point of dinosaur research?
a. John Ostron, Yale, published famous paper
i. Deinonychus 1969
1. Deinonychus antirrhopus
2. Tail in the air, horizontal to the ground
3. Toe standing, lifted
4. Tendon in tail is stiff, cannot bend
ii. Tiggeed so alled Diosau Reaissae late 96s
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