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What was the first dinosaur to be described and named scientifically?

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    A report of this find was published by R. Brookes in 1763. The first dinosaur to be described scientifically was Megalosaurus. This genus was named in 1824, by William Buckland; Gideon Mantell (not Ferdinand August von Ritgen) assigned the scientific type species name, Megalosaurus bucklandii."

    Megalosaurus.
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