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English: (1841). "Report on British fossil reptiles. Part II.". Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Held at Plymouth in July 1841: 60–204.; see p. 103. From p. 103: "The combination of such characters … will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria*. (*Gr. δεινός, fearfully great; σαύρος, a lizard. … )"
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Source (1841). "Report on British fossil reptiles. Part II.". Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Held at Plymouth in July 1841: 60–204.; see p. 103. From p. 103: "The combination of such characters … will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria*. (*Gr. δεινός, fearfully great; σαύρος, a lizard. … )"
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