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    What is the name of the first fossil that was found?

    Question #47062. Asked by 12791. (May 02 04 7:30 AM)


    shady shaker

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    May 02 04, 7:44 AM
    Linus_337

    		Gideon Mantell, an English obstetrician, geologist and paleontologist, is credited with discovering the first ever fossils to be identified as belonging to a dinosaur, teeth belonging to an Iguanodon.

    http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Gideon%20Mantell


    May 02 04, 1:26 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		The first dinosaur to be named was the megalosaurus (the name meaning "big lizard").

    May 03 04, 9:27 AM



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