Lecture 5 - updated Flashcards
When were the very early discoveries? Where did they take place?
206BC and 220AD
Major trade route b/w China, the rest of Asia and Europe
One theory suggests that the Griffin lore may have been based on discoveries of _____ in the _____ desert
Protoceratops, Gobi
Who described the first dino fossil?
Reverend Dr Robert Plot in England in 1677
What did Plot think the bone was?
The end of a large thigh bone of a pre-biblical Flood giant. First an elephant and then a giant human
What did Mary Ann Mantell discover?
Iguana teeth but way bigger
When did Mary Ann Mantell discover big iguana teeth?
1822
What were the 3 first identified dinos?
Iguandodon
Megalosaurus
Hylaeosaurus
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Builds a life size sculpture of Iguanodon in front of Crystal palace
Joseph Leidy
Desribes first significant dino remain in NA
Produces reconstructions that transform dinos into beasts
Describe the Bone wars. When? Who was involved? Where did it take place? How many species were discovered?
1877-1892
Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh
Competing camps in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska
>142 species discovered
When was the first written report of dino bones in alberta near Dino Prov Park?
1871
George Dawson
Discovered duck-billed dino fragments along Milk River
Joseph B. Tyrell
Discovery of skull of first meat-eating dino in Canada
When was the era of imperialistic paleontology?
1907-1920
When was the great Canadian Dino Rush
1910-1917
