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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 .
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The scientific study of dinosaurs began in 1820s England. In 1842, Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur, which in his vision were elephantine reptiles. An ambitious promoter of his discoveries and theories, Owen was the driving force for the Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures, the first large-scale public dinosaur reconstructions (1854). These ...
A partial mandible discovered in the middle Purbeck Formation by A. J. Hogg was described in 1874 by British palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen. The fossil was found in a hard limestone known as "Under Feather", 1.2–1.5 m (4–5 ft) below the "Cinder Beds" which contain many shells of Ostrea distorta .