Gideon Mantell and the discovery of dinosaurs
Dean, Dennis R.1999
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This is a biography of a dinosaur hunter and scholar. Mantell spent 25 years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era.
Main title:
Gideon Mantell and the discovery of dinosaurs / Dennis R. Dean.
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Collation:
xix, 290p. : ill., facisms., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780521420488 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920 MAN560.92
Language:
English
BRN:
239033