RE: G. A. Mantell would be 214 today (and why Buckland wasn't fir st, after all)

["Craven, David" <David.Craven@bolton.gov.uk>]

>>>> Also, the name Megalosaurus he erected for his theropod was already
used
>> as a valid scientific name for one genus of recent lizzard! The name was
>> used in 1822 by proff. Parkinson.
>> 
>>>What! Is *Megalosaurus* really preoccupied!?!
>> (I'd love it. :-) )
>> 
>> 
>> James Parkinson did indeed come up with the name Megalosaurus, but for
the
>> same fossil bones that Buckland described, not for an extant genus. I
think
>> the confusion here comes from the fact they thought the bones were of an
>> unidentified giant marine iguana.

>Ah, you're right. Parkinson described some fossil (but not sure if it was
the same as the Buckland's one) from Oxford museum in 1822 ("An 
>introduction to the study of fossil organic remains").

I'm pretty sure he described the same jaw Buckland later worked on.

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