Dinosaurs

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First dinosaur renaissance

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Started in the early 1800's
went to the early 20th century
coincided with the development of paleontology as a science

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North America

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Indians living in the underlain by Mesozoic sedimentary rocks explained dinosaurs as the remains of former animals

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SW Africa

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cave paintings of animals making dino tracks

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Brazil

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Artwork associated with a cretaceous dinosaur track

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Mongolia

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Alternation of dino eggs into jewerly

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Central Asia

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legend of the griffin may be base on proceratops

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China

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reference to dragon bones about thee hundreds bc

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Europeans who recognized that dinos were former organisms but not dinos

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Leonardo da vinci, Nickolas steno, robert hooke

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Robert Plot

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probably first description of a dino bone but in 1677 but gets lost and never confirmed. He thought elephant but probably megalosaurus. Richard Brooks called it the Scrotum Humanum in1763.

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John Woodward

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first cataloging of a dino bone in 1728 probably megalosaurus

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Reverend william Bucklan

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1824 first scientific description of a dinosaur (Theropoda) Megalosaurus based on a lower jaw found in 1815.

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George Cuvier

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first to recognize extinction of organisms co-developed of principle of biologic succession

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Gideon Mantell

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second scientific description of a dino Ornithopoda Iquanodon - based on teeth and bones found in 1822 also described an anklosaur Hylaeosarus Mary Mantell found the iquanodon tooth

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Dinosaur Tracks

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Rev edward Tagart 1846 attributed tracks to birds Alfred Tyler, T Rupert Jones, and Samuel Beckles 1862 attributed tracks to reptiles

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Sir Richard Owen

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Invented the term Dinosauria in 1842 for Megalosaurs, Iquanodon, Hylaeosaurus

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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

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Prominent artist working with Owen. thought dinos were heavy set and quadrupeds.

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Jacques Amand Eudes Deslonchamps

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discovered Theropod poekilopleuron

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Christen Von Meyer

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Plateosaurus, a prosaropod was discovered and named in 1837

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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vigorous defender of Darwin, noted links between dinos and birds in 1868, described a late triassic prosaropod, Euskelosaurus, from south africa.

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Harry Govier Seeley

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divided dinosaria into saurischia and orthischia based on hip structure. argued that dinosauria was polyphyletic, not monophyletic, dinosaur was not a clade

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louis antoine marie joseph dollo

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studied 39 dinos from bernissart, belgium. showed that Iquanodon was bipedal and Mantell was wrong, the spike was a fingertip

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Rev Edward Hitchcock

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interpreted dino tracks as prehistoric birds in 1836 in the Connecticut river, first to describe dino coprolites, helped develop ichnology, the study of trace fossils.

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Joseph Leidy

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American Paleontologist in the mid 1800's first to describe any dino as bipedal, namely Hadrosaurus. pointed out that it could walk on all fours Taphonomy correctly described as well. described Troodon based on teeth only