کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4735131 1640661 2012 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Naming the Bristol dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus: politics and science in the 1830s
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات زمین شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Naming the Bristol dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus: politics and science in the 1830s
چکیده انگلیسی
Several dinosaurs were reported from 1824 to 1842, the latter being the year in which Richard Owen named the 'Dinosauria'. The fourth dinosaur ever named was Thecodontosaurus, based on numerous isolated bones from Late Triassic cave deposits, excavated in 1834 from a working limestone quarry in Bristol in south-west England. The genus was named in 1836, and it was the first dinosaur ever reported from the Triassic. The remains were shown first to Samuel Stutchbury, curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution. He recruited the noted Bristol surgeon and anatomist Henry Riley to assist in interpreting the bones, but local amateur geologist, the Reverend David Williams, was competing to be the first to report the fossils. The squabble between Stutchbury and Williams is reconstructed from manuscript letters, and it highlights the clash between individuals, but also between supposed professionals and amateurs in these early days of the development of geology and palaeontology as sciences.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association - Volume 123, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 766-778
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