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  • The famed Georges Cuvier
    Georges Cuvier
    Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...

     publishes illustrations of vertebrae discovered near Honfleur. He mistakenly describes them as crocodillian, although later researchers have concluded that these remains almost certainly belonged to a theropod dinosaur.
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