Dinosaurs

• James Parkinson
  James Parkinson
  James Parkinson was an English apothecary surgeon, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by...
  
   (after whom the disease
  Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
  
   is named) publishes a general text on paleontology wherein he illustrates and describes teeth belonging to Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...
  
  . Because his reference to this name in print was earlier to William Buckland
  William Buckland
  The Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
  
  's formal description of the genus some people have concluded that Parkinson was the one who invented the name. This is a misconception; Buckland truly deserves credit for the name Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...
  
  and Parkinson got the name from him.
• According to an oft-repeated story, while her husband is treating a patient, Mary Ann Mantell amuses herself by rummaging through a pile of stone rubble and discovers the first fossil of what would later be named Iguanodon
  Iguanodon
  Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...
  
  . This tooth intrigues her husband, who ascertains the quarry they were excavated from and returns there to successfully discover more fossils belonging to the species. However, some have questioned the authenticity of this story.
• In May, Mantell publishes a book called The Fossils of the South Downs wherein he briefly describes his findings of the fossils belonging to a large reptile, which he would later
  1825 in paleontology
  -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
  
   name Iguanodon
  Iguanodon
  Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...
  
  .
• Adam Sedgwick noted a recent discovery by William Buckland in the Sandown Bay of the Isle of Wight. These large bones were misinterpreted by Buckland as belonging to a Cetacean. He would later
  1824 in paleontology
  -Dinosaurs:* William Buckland realizes that fossils he previously believed to be of cetacean origin were actually Iguanodon fossils. This mistake cost him the chance to describe the genus himself.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
  
   realize that these were in fact Iguanodon
  Iguanodon
  Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...
  
  bones. The long delay caused by his mistake prevented him from being able to name the genus himself.