Dinosaurs By Matt L. and Banks A.

Dragon Bones Discovered ~ Dragon bones are found in China but are actually dinosaur bones.

Giant Thigh Bones Reverend Plot England. Giant femur bone of a dinosaur found in China.

Report of Giant Bone Robert Brooke Robert Brooke published a book on dinosaurs and used a Linnaeus system name to name it. He named it Carolus Linnaeus

Megalosaurus, Iguandon, and Hylaesaurous Sir Richard Owen, 1842, England. Richard Owen was superintendent of the history department at the British museum and responsible for transfering specimens to the new Natural History museum. Hylaesaurous lived 136 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. Iguanodons were herbivores that are related to iguanas. Iguanodon means "iguana tooth" in Greek. Megalosaurus were carnivores that lived in the Jurassic period.

First Dinosaur Described Scientifically William Buckland William Buckland described Megalosaurus, one of the first dinosaurs to be discovered. He discovered the Megalosaurus fossil in a prehistoric Cave Hyena den.

First American Dinosaur Discovered William Parker Foulke, 1858, New Jersey. He "discovered" the bones while on vacation in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He named it Hadrosaurus Foulkii and it was the first bipedal dinosaur to be "discovered". His find was the first full dinosaur skeleton to be discovered in North America

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