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What was the first dinosaur name?
What was the first dinosaur name?
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Megalosaurus is thought to be the first dinosaur described in scientific literature. But based on a fossil uncovered in the seventeenth century, it could have been known by a different name. In the mid-1600s, a fossil bone was acquired by Dr Robert Plot, the first keeper of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.