Naming the Bristol dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus: politics and science in the 1830s
Naming the Bristol dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus: politics and science in the 1830s
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10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.07.012
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发表时间：
2012-09-01
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1.2
通讯作者：
Benton, Michael J.
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作者：
Benton, Michael J.
从1824年到1842年，有几种恐龙被报道，后者是理查德欧文命名为“恐龙”的那一年。第四种被命名的恐龙是齿龙，它是根据1834年在英格兰西南部布里斯托尔的一个石灰石采石场挖掘出来的晚三叠纪洞穴沉积物中大量孤立的骨头命名的。该属于1836年被命名，它是三叠纪发现的第一只恐龙。这些遗骸首先被展示给了布里斯托尔学院博物馆馆长塞缪尔·斯图奇伯里。他聘请了著名的布里斯托尔外科医生和解剖学家亨利·莱利（Henry Riley）协助解释这些骨头，但当地业余地质学家戴维·威廉姆斯牧师（Reverend David Williams）正在竞争成为第一个报告这些化石的人。斯图奇伯里和威廉姆斯之间的争吵是根据手稿信件重建的，它突出了在地质学和古生物学作为科学发展的早期，个人之间的冲突，以及所谓的专业人士和业余爱好者之间的冲突。(C) 2012地质工作者协会。Elsevier Ltd.出版。版权所有。
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. (C) 2012 The Geologists' Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.