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- The famed Georges CuvierGeorges CuvierGeorges 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.