Lecture 5 - who discovered the first Dino? Flashcards
Who described the first dino fossil
Reverend Dr Robert Plot in england 1677
Age of Enlightenment
Major scientific conclusions are drawn
Earth changes over time
Earth is really old
Stratigraphic principles of relative dating
Fossils are the remains of ancient creatures
Organisms change over time
First dinosaurs were disvocered by
westerners
Mary Ann Mantell
Discovered what looked like iguana teeth but are way bigger
William Buckland
finds first lower jaw of what he belives is a rather large lizard
Megalosaurus
Gideon Mantell
Mary ann’s husband buys bones from a fossil dealer. Turns out to be the most complete non-avian dino found yet - a partially articulated Hylaeosaurus
Sir Richard Owen
Coins the term dinosaur
Deinos sauros
“fearfully great” “lizard”
What are the 3 first identified dinos?
Iguanadon
Megalosaurus
Mylaeosaurus
When did victorians start to imortalize their conception of dinos in drawings and scultptures
1852
Joseph Leidy
finds first significant dinosaur remians in NA hadrosaurus foulkii
1858
When were the bone wars
1877-1892
Who had a rivarly
Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh
Golden age of palaeontology
Marsh and Cope ran competing camps in Colorado, wyoming, and nebraska. More than 142 species were discovered
When was the first written report of dino bones in Alberta
1871
George Dawson
1974 Duck billed dinosaur fragments along milk river
When was the discovery of skull of first meat eating dino in canada
1884
Joseph B. Tyrell
Discovery of skull of first meat eating dino in Canada in 1884
By the end of the Great Canadian Dino rush >300 signidicant specimens are collected and shipped to museaums but
very few stayed in AB
The calm years
after the great depression and world ward 2 funding decreases and large expeditions are done, Interest in dinos declines and reserach slows
When is the dino renaissance
1970-Today
Melanosomes
pigment producing cells
Melanosomes
pigment producing cells
Which dino reconstrcutuon was the closest to reality?
The Hylaeosaurus
Best guess for locomotion
