A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852)

A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a suarian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore like previously discovered dinosaurs. Cartoon by John Scott from Thomas Hood Comic Annual, London, 1836. Woodcut

1790-1852 1836 Cuckfield Discovered Geologist Gideon Iguanodon Mantell Palaeontology Previously

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