GEOL 008 Lecture 14: 14 -The Fearfully Great
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Early dinosaurs were small, bipedal omnivores with five fingered gras[ong hands. Speculation about evolution but no widely accepted and no natural selection yet. Worked to find geologic evidence of a biblical flood. Commonly cited flood deposits turned out to be glacial . Coprology - published first scientific analysis of coprolites , summarizing. Cave with chewed up bones of lions, hippos,rhinos and mysterious round objects. Was a hyena cave from a time when african animals lived in england. Together with a colleague and advice from cuvier. 1824 - megalosaurus bucklandii ( bucklands great lizard)- turned out to be the. Became infatuated with fossils found many large bones. 1822 - wife mary ann mantell found teeth in a sussex road. Few were convinced at first herbivore teeth. 1825 - iguanodon ( iguana teeth)- the second described dinosaur. Identified and described therapsids, giant ground sloths and archaeopteryx. Recognized that buckland"s megalosaurus and mantells iguanodon and.
