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| thought dinosaur bones were dragons in sichuan china. climbed up the mountain ionly to find gates of heaven shut |
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| megalosaurs femur originally, later found to be remains of the groin. first scientific name |
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| thought dinosaur remains were large buffalos |
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| giant rip in montana, said it was immense fish |
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| not a dino, seagoing relative of todays monitor lizards. cuvier said it was crazy tot hink they lived today. |
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| first person to get respect from people and actually consider extinct animals. saw mososaurus remains were impossible to be around now, buried in chalk quarry, no sea |
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| scientifically describing first dinosaur. large jaw with saber teeth. said reptile based on teeth. megalosaurus |
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| surgeon who found iguanodon. cuvier exmined these fossils. cuvier was wrong and said they were from rhino or hippo. |
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| found by mantell, first described herbivorous dino. |
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| said dinos were scaled up members of living reptile groups. worked for old crocs, not dinos. he finally said these bones were from an unrecognized reptile group. |
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