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Re: New name for Megalosaurus hesperis



<<The name _Duriavenator_ apparently means "Dorset hunter", Duria being an old name for Dorset. (I don't know who actually first used the place-name 'Duria', though I assume it's Romano-British in origin.)>>

Well, me dear, bein' an' ancient Dorset fossil meself, I do as remember them there Durotriges was a Celtic people, what did as live in Dorset when them there Romans turned up. They did as 'ave a place called Durnovaria, what the Romans poshed up to Dorchester.