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The term Dinosauria (Greek, "terrible lizards") was coined by the British comparative anatomist Richard Owen in 1842 to represent three partly known, impressively large fossil reptiles from the English countryside: the carnivore Megalosaurus, the duckbilled Iguanodon, and the armored Hylaeosaurus.

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