IGUANODON

ĭgwănˈədŏn [Gr.,=iguana tooth], herbivorous ornithiscian dinosaur, characterized by teeth similar to those of the iguana, a horny beak, spikelike thumbs, and a powerful tail. It may have been capable of walking on either two or four feet. Fossils remains of the 30-ft-long (9-m) reptile have been found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the W United States in strata of the early Cretaceous period, approximately 135–110 million years ago. It possessed characteristic spikelike thumbs. Iguanodon, the second dinosaur to be formally named, was first described by Gideon Mantell, an English physician and geologist. He credited his wife, Mary Ann Woodhouse Mantell, with the discovery. An impressive find by miners in a Belgian coal mine in 1878 turned up more than 20 nearly complete fossil skeletons.

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books on: Iguanodon  - 86 results

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Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe
Book by Martin Lockley, Christian Meyer; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: Dinosaur Tracks--Europe, Footprints, Fossil--Europe
...does not preclude casual reference to Iguanodon tracks; it just means that the concept...morphology of the tracks in question. Iguanodon tracks provide a classic case study of...1860 had been correctly attributed to Iguanodon. 11 Thus, they were the first dinosaur...
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The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks at Evolution
Book by Martin Lockley; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Animal Tracks, Evolution (Biology), Footprints, Fossil, Tracking And Trailing
FIGURE 6.1 Iguanodon tracks from England are among the first...this region was a thoroughfare for Iguanodon . An illustration of one of these tracks...are identified as the footprints of Iguanodon . Challengers colleague, Professor...
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The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin
Book by Christopher McGowan; Perseus Books, 2001
Subjects: Fossils--Collection And Preservation--History--19th Century, Paleontologists--England--Biography, Paleontology--England--History--19th Century, Paleontology--History--Popular Works, Women Paleontologists--England--Biography
...Among his alternate suggestions was Iguanodon , meaning "iguana tooth." Conybeare...accepted his advice, changing the name to Iguanodon . At about the same time, Mantell received...and, many years later, when enough Iguanodon material had been collected to reconstruct...
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Crocodile: Evolution's Greatest Survivor
Book by Lynne Kelly; Allen & Unwin, 2006
Subjects: Crocodilians
would be obsessed with Iguanodon for the remaining thirty years of...enough fossil evidence to show that Iguanodon would have been a biped, with its...display in Londons Crystal Palace. Iguanodon was to be the centrepiece. Owen ignored...
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Ideology and Classic American Literature
Book by Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen; Cambridge University Press, 1987
Subjects: American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Politics In Literature
...named the bearer of the older tooth "Iguanodon" "iguana tooth" . In 1825, his paper "Notice on the Iguanodon, a Newly-Discovered Fossil Reptile...record expanded, it became apparent that Iguanodon was but one member of a family of reptiles...
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journal articles on: Iguanodon  - 10 results

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Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the Role of the Geological Society of London in Their Discovery: Ornithischia
Journal article by Darren Naish, David M. Martill; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 165, 2008
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Fossils, History
...ornithischian to be described was the ornithopod Iguanodon, based on isolated teeth from the Hastings...Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, Mantellisaurus and Iguanodon have been recovered. The youngest non...genus (e.g. most species referred to Iguanodon) and, in most cases, it is the type...
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Exemplar by Feature Applicability Matrices and Other Dutch Normative Data for Semantic Concepts
Journal article by Simon de Deyne, Steven Verheyen, Eef Ameel, Wolf Vanpaemel, Matthew J. Dry, Wouter Voorspoels, Gert Storms; Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 40, 2008
Subjects: Birds, Clothing, Fruits, Kitchen utensils, Natural & organic foods, Studies
...2). The exemplars Komodo dragon and iguanodon were omitted from the reptiles category...because the exemplars Komodo dragon and iguanodon were omitted. They proved too unfamiliar...matrix, the exemplars Komodo dragon and iguanodon were omitted from the reptiles Type III...
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Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the Role of the Geological Society of London in Their Discovery: Basal Dinosauria and Saurischia
Journal article by Darren Naish, David M. Martill; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 164, 2007
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Studies
...Megalosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, Iguanodon and others (Delair Wimbledon 1995...Formation) that the famous Mantel-Piece Iguanodon specimen was obtained (Mantell 1834...the Aptian Potton Sands have yielded Iguanodon and the stegosaur Craterosaurus pottonensis...
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First Report of Amber with Spider Webs and Microbial Inclusions from the Earliest Cretaceous (C. 140 Ma) of Hastings, Sussex
Journal article by Martin Brasier, Laura Cotton, Ian Yenney; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 166, 2009
...with dinosaur remains, including fossilized trackways of Iguanodon (Beckles 1854). Methods Because the exposures are currently...marshy floodplain of the kind inhabited by herds of grazing Iguanodon. Here the resins accumulated alongside charcoalified wood...
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Jules Supervielle: an Eco-poet?
Journal article by Peter Low; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2004
Subjects: Environmental protection, Literary criticism, Nature, Poets, Supervielle, Jules
...pumas, and rhinoceroses. The reptiles include lizards and crocodiles and even two prehistoric ones, the diplodocus and the iguanodon (212, 226). As for birds, the list includes aigles, becassines, chardonnerets, colibris, coqs, flamants, goemons...
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magazine articles on: Iguanodon  - 13 results

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An Awful, Terrible Dinosaurian Irony
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, February 1998
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Evolution, Fossils, Owen, Richard, Paleontology, Personal profiles
...dinosaurs) in 1825-the herbivorous Iguanodon, now classified as a duckbill. Later...estimated up to 100 feet in length for Iguanodon, a figure reduced to 28 feet by Owen...voice: In my earliest notices of the Iguanodon . . an attempt was made to estimate the...
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Designer Jaws
Magazine article by David B. Weishampel; Natural History, Vol. 104, June 1995
Subjects: Animal behavior, Diet, Dinosaurs, Mouth, Paleontology, Teeth
...Beginning with a comprehensive study of Iguanodon, the second dinosaur ever discovered...individual elements of the skulls of Iguanodon and a host of duck-billed dinosaurs...hypsilophodontids and iguanodontians (hadrosaurids, Iguanodon, and close relatives), and another...
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Origin of the Griffin
Magazine article by Pat Linse, Jim W. W Smith, Daniel Loxton; Skeptic, Vol. 16, 2010
Subjects: Animals, Birds, Deserts, Studies
...dinosaur age, they got all sorts of stuff wrong - because they didnt understand what they were looking at. (The skeleton of iguanodon was first assembled with its thumb spikes on the tip of its nose. Elasmosaurus had its head stuck on the end of its tail...
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Within the Bone
Magazine article by Anusuya Chinsamy; Natural History, Vol. 104, June 1995
Subjects: Biology, Dinosaurs, Fossils, Paleontology
...the nature of the bone formed late in their growth, some dinosaurs, including Syntarsus, Brachiosaurus, Troodon, and Iguanodon, appear to have reached a definite, mature body size and then stopped growing. Even the largest Dryosaurus and Massospondylus...
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Lost Land of Water and Rock
Magazine article by Parisina Malatesta; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 48, November 1996
Subjects: National parks and reserves--Venezuela, Venezuela--Description and travel
...of Sherlock Homes himself, Arthur Conan Doyle, was surprised by the discovery of dinosaur bones belonging to a Cretaceous iguanodon, practically at his doorstep in Sussex. The excitement of this find, the influence of Charles Darwin, and Schomburgks...
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newspaper articles on: Iguanodon  - 18 results

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Dinosaurs Magazine: The Flying Saucerus
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 26, 2000
...know as birds - which were more adaptable. IGUANODON FOSSILISED footprints reveal that Iguanodon usually walked on all fours, although it...four-legged monster was very similar to Iguanodon. But the Muttaburrasaurus also had a large...
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Creative Learning at Dinosaur Center
Newspaper article by Joseph Szadkowski; The Washington Times, June 13, 2000
...talent. Players 5 years old and older sign in and meet the iguanodon Aladar and his friends as they introduce activities that continually...Stegosaurus Spelunker, Lemur Love Match and a personal favorite, Iguanodon Pond-a-Thon, quickly get players thinking. The game...
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The Prize Crossword
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 3, 2010
...Sasquatch, 9 Wolverine, 10 Rioja, 11 Laputa, 12 Larkin, 19 Raoul, 20 Waugh, 22 Basil, 24 Top Secret, 25 Mont Blanc, 26 Iguanodon, 28 Julian, 29 Velvet, 30 Hockney, 32 Owlet, 34 Reade, 36 Liana. STUMPED? Just ask Fred, left! Our faithful word...
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Animated Flick Resurrects Lost World
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, May 19, 2000
Subjects: Walt Disney Co.
...company as a pace setter and overachiever in the field of computer animation. The stolen egg discloses its occupant: an infant iguanodon, which is reluctantly adopted by a family of lemurs. This is reminiscent of last summers animated "Tarzan," with a dinosaur...
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It's Our Very Own Jurassic Park; Hi-Tech Robotic Dinosaurs Arriving at the Natural History Museum
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 20, 2006
Subjects: Exhibitions--Technology application, Museums--Technology application, Robotics industry--Technology application
...models are very lifelike and that means there is a bit of blood and gore." Visitors will also encounter the plant-eating iguanodon as it grasps at food with its flexible fifth finger. A display called Dino Jaws will be home to three dramatic lifesized...
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encyclopedia articles on: Iguanodon  - 3 results

 
 
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Iguanodon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IGUANODON igwan don Gr.,=iguana tooth, herbivorous ornithiscian dinosaur...110 million years ago. It possessed characteristic spikelike thumbs. Iguanodon, the second dinosaur to be formally named, was first described by Gideon...
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Dinosaur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Apatosaurus Brontosaurus and Diplodocus ). Among the ornithischians, there were ornithopods (bird-footed dinosaurs), such as Iguanodon ; thyreophorans (armored dinosaurs), such as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus ; and ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs), such...
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Cretaceous Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reached their zenith, including the dinosaurs Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus), and Iguanodon, and ranged from herbivores to carnivores. Flying reptiles such as the pterosaurs were highly developed, while in the sea...


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