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Bernissart dinosaurs and early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems
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ISBN: 9780253357212 9780253005700 9786613675330 0253005701 1280698373 0253357217 9781280698378 6613675334 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all that. The animal was displayed in an upright posture similar to a kangaroo, and later with its tail off the ground like the dinosaur we know of today. Focusing on the Bernissant discoveries, this book presents the latest research on Iguanodon and other deniz

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