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  2. William Parker Foulke - Wikipedia

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    William Parker Foulke (1816–1865) discovered the first full dinosaur skeleton in North America (Hadrosaurus foulkii, [1] which means "Foulke's big lizard") in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858.

  3. Paleontology in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the late 1850s, the world's first reasonably complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in New Jersey. [68] Joseph Leidy would name it Hadrosaurus. This was the first known dinosaur, the first dinosaur to be interpreted as two-legged, and the first to be mounted for exhibition in a museum. [69]

  4. Earl Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Earl Douglass with his hand on a Diplodocus specimen, Dinosaur National Monument (August 1922).. Earl Douglass (October 28, 1862 – January 13, 1931) was an American paleontologist who discovered the dinosaur Apatosaurus, playing a central role in one of the most important fossil finds in North America.

  5. History of paleontology in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Washington is the latest state to have found their first dinosaur bone, it was recovered in 2012 but was not publicly identified until May 21, 2015. Some states contain rocks of the appropriate type and age to preserve dinosaur fossils, so the list of states with known dinosaur fossils is likely to increase in the future. [133] [134]

  6. List of North American dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    The only recorded find of a dinosaur fossil in Central America consists of a single femur discovered from Middle Cretaceous age deposits in Comayagua Department in the central part of Honduras. The fossil had been found in January, 1971 by Bruce Simonson and Gregory Horne, though it was later sent to the National Museum of Natural History, USA ...

  7. Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site - Wikipedia

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    The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey.Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858.

  8. Timeline of paleontology - Wikipedia

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    Later they would be recognized as dinosaur tracks. 1841 — Anatomist Richard Owen creates a new order of reptiles, dinosauria, for animals: Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus, found by Mantell and Buckland. 1841 — The first global geologic timescale is defined by John Phillips based on the type of fossils found in different rock layers.

  9. History of paleontology - Wikipedia

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    In the 135 years between Buckland's first discovery and 1969 a total of 170 dinosaur genera were described. In the 25 years after 1969 that number increased to 315. Much of this increase was due to the examination of new rock exposures, particularly in previously little-explored areas in South America and Africa. [ 82 ]