OED says that the term was used by Lyell in 1830. I suspect the first one
was discovered some time earlier.
Dave
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 07:24:57 -0500 "Darryl Maddox" <dpmaddox@arn.net>
writes:
> Glenn Morton wrote, quoting Carl Baugh:
> snip..
> >. The record states that in France, some
> > workmen, in the winter of 1856, .... Local students of
> paleontology
> immediately
> > identified this creature as being a pterodactyl." ~ Carl Baugh,
> Panorama
> of
> > Creation, (Oklahoma City: Southwest Radio Church, 1989), p. 20
> >
>
> My comment:
>
> Might be interesting to compare that 1856 date with the date of the
> first
> discovery of a fossil pterodactyl.
> Anyone know?
>
> Darryl
>
>
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