Wealden Series
geology
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Mantell
- In Gideon Algernon Mantell
…the freshwater origin of the Wealden series of the Cretaceous Period, and from them he brought to light and described the remarkable dinosaurian reptiles known as Iguanodon, Hylaeosaurus, Pelorosaurus, and Regnosaurus. He also described the Triassic reptile Telerpeton elginense. Mantell’s major works include The Fossils of the South Downs, or
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