Major dinosaur discoveries in a nutshell

Daniel Madzia

doi:10.4202/app.00906.2021

Abstract

Major dinosaur discoveries in a nutshell

Highlights

It has been almost two centuries since William Buckland’s classic “Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield” (1824), where he provided the des cription of a new “Saurian or Lizard” he named Megalosaurus, a creature that would later become acknowledged as the very first formally established dinosaur taxon known to science
Holtz (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) famously recalled in his wonderful “Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages”, nor does it need any other list of dinosaurs
The title of the book and the structure of its table of contents do not advertise the book properly, and, clearly, merely reflect the fact that there have been other -named books published by the Columbia University Press recently: “The Story of Life in 25 Fossils” and “The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks”; both authored by Donald R

Summary

Introduction

The book titled “The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries” by Donald R. The title suggests that the reader might deal with a list of twenty-five famous dinosaur discoveries, and even the table of contents, showing each chapter headlined with a name of a dinosaur, fuels such worries a bit. “The world doesn’t need another A-to-Z list of dinosaurs”, as Thomas R.

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