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Paper, 'On the pelorosaurus: an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Reference number: PT/38/2

Date: 01 November 1849

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/75/4/1-2.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the pelorosaurus; an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex'.

Written by Mantell in Chester Square, Pimlico [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 22 November 1849. Read 14 February 1850.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/38/2
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01 November 1849
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20 pages
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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Paper, 'On the pelorosaurus: an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell, 01 November 1849, PT/38/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_2/paper-on-the-pelorosaurus-an-undescribed-gigantic-terrestrial-reptile-whose-remains-are-associated-with-those-of-the-iguanodon-and-other-saurians-in-the-strata-of-tilgate-forest-in-sussex-by-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 09 December 2025

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