A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a suarian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore like previously discovered dinosaurs. Cartoon by John Scott from Thomas Hood 'Comic Annual', London, 1836. Woodcut.

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A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a suarian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore like previously discovered dinosaurs. Cartoon by John Scott from Thomas Hood 'Comic Annual', London, 1836. Woodcut.

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