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    Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct...
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    Ann Mantell (née Woodhouse; 9 April 1795 – 20 October 1869) was a British fossil collector and the wife of the British paleontologist Gideon Mantell. She...
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    Iguanodon (category Taxa named by Gideon Mantell)
    to forage for food. The genus was named in 1825 by English geologist Gideon Mantell, based on fossil specimens found in England and was given the species...
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    theories were rejected by most of the contemporary medical establishment. Gideon Mantell, the Sussex doctor more famous for discovering dinosaur fossils, spent...
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  • British artist Gideon Louw (born 1987), South African swimmer Gideon Macon (c. 1648–1702), early American settler and politician Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)...
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    Hylaeosaurus (category Taxa named by Gideon Mantell)
    Hylaeosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs to be discovered, in 1832 by Gideon Mantell. In 1842 it was one of the three dinosaurs Richard Owen based the Dinosauria...
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    Year's Eve 1853. However, in 1849, a few years before his death in 1852, Gideon Mantell had realised that Iguanodon, of which he was the discoverer, was not...
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    many complete and almost complete skeletons. The genus name honours Gideon Mantell, the discoverer of Iguanodon. The holotype fossil, NHMUK PV R5764, was...
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  • nurse G. D. Mantell, 10th Surveyor General of Ceylon Gideon Mantell (1790–1852), British obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist Joe Mantell (1915–2010)...
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    1822 by Mary Ann Mantell – the wife of English geologist Gideon Mantell who in fact had required remains years earlier. Gideon Mantell recognized similarities...
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    Pelorosaurus (category Taxa named by Gideon Mantell)
    renamed the sauropod bones Cetiosaurus conybeari in 1849. In 1850, Gideon Mantell decided that C. conybeari was so different from Cetiosaurus that it...
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  • of scoliosis" after performing a postmortem on surgeon and geologist Gideon Mantell, who had suffered from spinal problems for years. Scoliometer "Forward...
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    Clark 2001–2002 Casualty Jason Recurring role 2002 The Dinosaur Hunters Gideon Mantell 2002–2003 Two Thousand Acres of Sky Dr. Ewan Talbot Appeared in three...
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    Walter Mantell happened to meet the sealers, and secured the bird's skin from them. He sent it to his father, palaeontologist Gideon Mantell, who realised...
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    fossils he had purchased from them. He wrote to the palaeontologist Gideon Mantell on 5 March that year to say that the sale was "for the benefit of the...
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    designed by Charles Eamer Kempe (1837–1907). In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell, wife of Gideon Mantell, found the first known iguanodon fossils among many others...
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    references to her work were made. For example, she contributed to Gideon Mantell's work on stratigraphy, and also worked with Sowerby. Benett was unmarried...
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    Gottfried Ehrenberg (radiolarians, diatoms and dinoflagellate cysts), Gideon Mantell (desmids) and Henry Hopley White (dinoflagellate cysts). Quantitative...
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    19th century British paleontologists, notably between Richard Owen and Gideon Mantell. Some authors incorrectly spell the genus Belemnoteuthis following the...
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    the summer of 1834, Hawkins, after a taxation by William Buckland and Gideon Mantell, sold his extensive collection, then the largest of its kind in the...
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    of his students. In the 19th century, geologist and palaeontologist Gideon Mantell began the scientific study of dinosaurs. In 1822 he was responsible...
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  • Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Dean, Dennis R. (1999). Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press. pp. 97–98...
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    illustrator Mary Ann Mantell supposedly unearthed some fossilised teeth by a road in Sussex in 1822. Her husband, the geologist Gideon Mantell sent them to various...
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  • the term dinosaur for the giant reptiles discovered by Buckland and Gideon Mantell, Owen argued that these reptiles contradicted the transmutational ideas...
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    1826 (nomen oblitum) = Megalosaurus bucklandii, Mantell, 1827 Megalosaurus bucklandii Gideon Mantell 1827 = Megalosaurus conybeari, Ritgen, 1826 (nomen...
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    Seaway. Cretoxyrhina was first described by the English paleontologist Gideon Mantell from eight C. mantelli teeth he collected from the Southerham Grey Pit...
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    first volume of his Organic Remains of a Former World was published. Gideon Mantell praised it as "the first attempt to give a familiar and scientific account...
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    the river where the holotype specimen was discovered nearby. In 1829, Gideon Mantell added the specific epithet hoffmannii, in honor to Hoffmann. Cuvier...
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  • scanty specimens available. In April 1848 Melville was working with Gideon Mantell on Iguanadon and Hylaeosaurus. Later in the year they went together...
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    Reptiles", a phrase coined by the early 19th-century paleontologist Gideon Mantell who recognized the dinosaurs and the ancestors of the crocodilians as...
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