Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Dennis R. Dean

Cambridge University Press, 1999

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This 1999 book is a scholarly yet accessible biography of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty five 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.

ISBN-13
9780521420488
ISBN-10
0521420482
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
Publication date
1999-01-13
Pages
312
Dimensions
160x236x27
Weight
612