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- proper noun A
genus ofornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedalhypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in theduck-billed dinosaurs .
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From the early 19th-century paintings of dragon-like Megalosaurus and Iguanodon to the computer-generated creatures that stomp and scream across theater screens, the artistic mix of science and speculation has introduced us to these fantastic creatures from lost worlds.
That's Not a Dinosaur! Brian Switek 2011
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Owenodon (Ornithopoda; Iquandodontia: new designation for Iguanodon hoggi) 27.
"Not much chance for survival if the Neon Bible is true." sovay 2010
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Oh, and I had no idea that, last year, Greg Paul (a notorious taxonomic "lumper" since at least the '80s) split the taxon Iguanodon into Iguanodon, Mantellisaurus, and Dollodon.
"But I could sleep with you there. I could sleep with you there." greygirlbeast 2009
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Owenodon (Ornithopoda; Iquandodontia: new designation for Iguanodon hoggi) 27.
2009 in Dinosaur Paleontology (better late than never). greygirlbeast 2010
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Restorations with wings attached to the legs are as old and inaccurate as Owen's horned Iguanodon.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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One had forgotten what a real dinosaur looked like and here was one live on TV, not so much Tyrannosaurus Rex as Bovine Iguanodon.
Archive 2007-08-19 2007
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One had forgotten what a real dinosaur looked like and here was one live on TV, not so much Tyrannosaurus Rex as Bovine Iguanodon.
Referendum News 2007
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"Restorations with wings attached to the legs are as old and inaccurate as Owen's horned Iguanodon." and "Pterosaurs were mostly bipedal"...
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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The 1909 acquisition of a Hastings Iguanodon specimen by the British Museum (Natural History) led to the little-known idea that William Butterfield (1872-1935), the then-curator of Hastings Museum, perpetrated the Piltdown hoax in order to make a fool of Charles Dawson (1864-1916), the discoverer of Piltdown man and extractor of the Iguanodon.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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An ABC picture book that asks, "could an Iguanodon ice skate?"
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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