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book Dinosaurs 5th Edition by Spencer George Lucas cover

Dinosaurs 5th Edition by Spencer George Lucas

Edition 5ISBN: 978-0072826951
book Dinosaurs 5th Edition by Spencer George Lucas cover

Dinosaurs 5th Edition by Spencer George Lucas

Edition 5ISBN: 978-0072826951
Exercise 2
Who introduced the term Dinosauria and what does it mean?
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The term "Dinosauria", was coined by Richard Owen who was a comparative anatomist based in Britain. In his publication in the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he coined the term Dinosauria.
The term Dinosuaria has it origin from Greek roots deinos , "terrible", which Owen meant, "fearfully great", and sauros , means "lizard" or "reptile".
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