1770 Maastricht Mosasaur
Numéro d’image : 11598439
| Engraving from William Buckland's 1835 "Geology and Minerology" of Mosasaur hoffmanii. The Maastricht Mosasaur was the first giant prehistoric reptile to be found and described by science. It prompted enlightenment scholars to consider that the world might once have been populated by different creatures to those found today. It was excavated in the St. Peters Bergs cave system of Holland by miners in 1770,and publicised widely by the naturalist Johann Hoffman. It was later captured by French Revolutionary forces and taken to Paris. A Dutch naturalist Adriaan Camper realised the beast was allied to the lizards in 1799. In 1808 Georges Cuvier confirmed this conclusion and published it in his seminal paleontology work "Ossamens Fossiles". It was not actually named Mosasaurus ("Meuse reptile") untill 1822 | |
| Licence : | Droits gérés |
| Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Stewart, Paul D. |
| Taille de l’image : | 5163 px × 3385 px |
| Model Release : | Non requis |
| Property Release : | Non requis |
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