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Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils .
Hylaeosaurus is the most obscure of the three animals used by Sir Richard Owen to first define the new group Dinosauria, in 1842, the other genera being Megalosaurus and Iguanodon. Not only has Hylaeosaurus received less public attention, despite being included in the life-sized models by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins placed in the Crystal Palace ...
Images Cardiodon. Nomen dubium. Sir Richard Owen, UK; Possible subjective synonym of Cetiosaurus. Cetiosaurus. Valid Sir Richard Owen, France Switzerland Morocco UK; A European Sauropod Cetiosaurus. Cladeiodon. Misidentification Sir Richard Owen, Germany; Dubious non-dinosaurian archosaur. Suchosaurus. Nomen dubium. Sir Richard Owen England ...
Chondrosteosaurus (meaning "cartilage and bone lizard") was a sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of England.. Holotype specimen of C. gigas. The type species, Chondrosteosaurus gigas, was described and named by Richard Owen in 1876. [1]
Dinosaur classification began in 1842 when Sir Richard Owen placed Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus in "a distinct tribe or suborder of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria." [1] In 1887 and 1888 Harry Seeley divided dinosaurs into the two orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, based on their hip structure. [2]
Owen had noticed that many fossils showed a downward bend in the rear tail. At first, he explained this as a post mortem effect, a tendon pulling the tail end downwards after death. However, after an article on the subject by Philip Grey Egerton , [ 27 ] Owen considered the possibility that the oblique section could have supported the lower ...
Sauropoda is a clade of dinosaurs that consists of roughly 300 species of large, long-necked herbivores and includes the largest terrestrial animals ever to exist. The first sauropod species were named in 1842 by Richard Owen, though at the time, he regarded them as unusual crocodilians.
Holotype of Dacentrurus armatus (NHMUK OR 46013), from Owen's 1875 monograph. On 23 May 1874, James Shopland of the Swindon Brick and Tyle Company reported in a letter to Professor Richard Owen that their clay pit, the Swindon Great Quarry below Old Swindon Hill at Swindon in Wiltshire, had again produced a fossil skeleton that he was willing to donate to the British Museum of Natural History.