RE: G. A. Mantell would be 214 today (and why Buckland wasn't fir st, after all)

[Vladimír Socha <Seismosaurus@seznam.cz>]

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From: "Craven, David" <David.Craven@bolton.gov.uk>
To: "'david.marjanovic@gmx.at'" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>, DML@listproc.usc.edu
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Subject: RE: G. A. Mantell would be 214 today (and why Buckland wasn't fir st, 
after all)
Date: 3. 2. 2004 13:46
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> >> Also, the name Megalosaurus he erected for his theropod was already used
> as a valid scientific name for one genus of recent lizzard! The name was
> used in 1822 by proff. Parkinson.
> 
> >What! Is *Megalosaurus* really preoccupied!?!
> (I'd love it. :-) )
> 
> 
> James Parkinson did indeed come up with the name Megalosaurus, but for the
> same fossil bones that Buckland described, not for an extant genus. I think
> the confusion here comes from the fact they thought the bones were of an
> unidentified giant marine iguana.

Ah, you're right. Parkinson described some fossil (but not sure if it was the 
same as the Buckland's one) from Oxford museum in 1822 ("An introduction to the 
study of fossil organic remains").