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| | The geology of the south-east of England. : Mantell, (Gideon Algernon) |
 | | As the first armored dinosaur ever discovered, Hylaeosaurus not only established a third major family of prehistoric saurians but also provided indisputable evidence that it, at least, had been a land dweller, In 1824 and 1825 both Megalosaurus and Iguanodonhad been interpreted as primarily aquatic, like the modern crocodile. |
 | | Gideon's paper on Hylaeosaurus, withheld by him on Charles Lyell's advice, surfaced not in a learned journal but as one chapter [chap. |
 | | X] in a third book, The Geology of the South-East of England, which was largely a synthesis of his first two, though in modern format and without the expensive plates. |
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