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| discovered first bones of dinosaur; Iguanodon teeth in 1822 |
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| wrote first full account of fossil dinosaur; discovered fossil of theropod, Megalosaurus (great lizard) in 1824 |
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| established British Museum of Natural History; hated Darwin; kept Mantell’s skeleton in a museum case; concluded that the bones of Iguanodon, Megalosaurus and Hylaeosaurus were not lizards but represented a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles; named this taxon the Dinosauria in 1842 |
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| started mining sea-side cliffs in 1810 when father died of TB; in 1811 found first Ichthyosaur; in 1821 she discovered the first plesiosaur; in 1828 she discovered the first pterodactylus; in 1846 she was made honorary member of the Geological Society of London (no women were allowed) |
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| father of American Vertebrate Paleontology described the first relatively complete dinosaur skeleton Hadrosaurus, and it was reconstructed as upright bipedal; |
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| studied in Europe, founded Peabody Museum at Yale (which is named after his rich uncle); first professor of paleontology at Yale; his collectors discovered Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Brontosaurus that he was the first to describe; BONE WARS - 1870’s-1890’s |
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| real “Indiana Jones”; started mopping floors in AMNH in 1906; dreamed of an expedition to Mongolia; had to raise $250,000 ($210 million today); leader of the Central Asiatic Expeditions; 5 between 1922-1930; found Protoceratops, Oviraptor, Velociraptor; nests of eggs; |
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| 1928-2005; Yale University; Deinonychus, warm-blooded dinosaurs, meat eating; explored the lower Cretaceous dinosaur bearing strata along the Montana-Wyoming border |
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| UC Berkley; his arean of interests is in vertebrate evolution especially the orgins of flight and the evolution of birds from the theropod dinosaurs; Pterosaur flight, Theropods |
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| Museum of the Rockies; discovered and named the Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young (communal nesting); dinosaur growth rates; Model for Alan Grant, Jurassic Park |
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| FSU; Dinosaur and avian growth rates, jaw mechanics |
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| Univ. of Chicago; expeditions to Argentina and Africa; discovered the first Herrerasaurus, Eoraptor, Afrovenator, Carcharodontosaurus, |
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