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Robert Plot's Dinosaur Bone, 1677

Illustration of a fossilized lower extremity of a presumed Megalosaurus femur taken from plate VIII, fig. 4 of Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-shire, 1677. The bone was described again by Richard Brookes in 1763 and captioned Scrotum humanum.

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Robert Plot's Dinosaur Bone, 1677

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Illustration of a fossilized lower extremity of a presumed Megalosaurus femur taken from plate VIII, fig. 4 of Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-shire, 1677. The bone was described again by Richard Brookes in 1763 and captioned Scrotum humanum.

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1677 • 17TH CENTURY • 17TH • ANATOMY: BONES • ART • BONE • BROOKES • CENTURY • DINOSAUR • DINOSAURS • EXTINCT • FEMUR • FIRST • FOSSIL • HISTORIC • HISTORY • HUMANUM • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • MEGALOSAURUS • MISIDENTIFIED • NATURAL • OXFORDSHIRE • PALAEONTOLOGY • PALEONTOLOGY • PLOT'S • PLOT • PREHISTORY • RICHARD • ROBERT • SCROTUM • XVII CENTURY