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Reptiles
French anatomist Georges Cuvier restudied a bizarre fossil illustrated by Collini. He reinterpreted its forelimbs as wings and deemed it a flying reptile. This fossil would be named Pterodactylus in 1809. wellnhofer-2008 Wellnhofer, Peter 2008 A short history of pterosaur research. Zitteliana B 28 7–19
Paleontologists
Birth of German paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer Farlow James Orville M. K. Brett-Surmann The Complete Dinosaur Indiana University Press 1999 Bloomington, Indiana 11 9780253213136 37107117
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