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Dinosaur - Specific type of reptile.
Specific type of
reptile.
All living reptiles are cold-blooded -
ectothermic
Most dinosaurs were small
The Dinosaur Story Mrs. Mantell collected fossils Dr. Mantell named Iguanodon
Sir Richard Owen Coined the term
Dinosaur 1842.
Edward Drinker Cope
Philadelphia Museum
Othniel C. Marsh
Yale University
Cope's first dinosaur
Laelaps.
Laelaps trihedrodon.
Marsh informs Cope that name had already been used for a spider…
And Marsh renamed it Dryptosaurus (1877)
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