Major Dinosaur Discoveries
The discoveries listed below followed Mantell's contribution of 1822, and offer an insight into the way in which we have pieced together our knowledge of dinosaurs that we know existed in the past. Click on a dinosaur name for further details.
click here for a chronology of dinosaur hunting
click here for a list of the dinosaur hunters
List of Discoveries
| Megalosaurus | 1824 |
| Hylaeosaurus | 1833 |
| Hitchcock's Footprints | 1836 |
| Crystal Palace restorations | 1854 |
| Trachodon, Troodon,Deinodon | 1856 |
| Hadrosaurus | 1858 |
| Compsognathus | 1861 |
| Archaeopteryx | 1861 |
| Laelaps | 1866 |
| Berlin Archaeopteryx | 1877 |
| Apatosaurus / Brontosaurus | 1877 |
| Stegosaurus | 1877 |
| Triceratops | 1888 |
| Diplodocus | 1899 |
| Tyrannosaurus | 1902 |
| The Trachodon Mummy | 1908 |
| Corythosaurus | 1912 |
| Camarasaurus | 1921 |
| Protoceratops and Oviraptor | 1923 |
| Velociraptor | 1923 |
| Dilophosaurus | 1940 |
| Coelyphysis | 1947 |
| Deinonychus | 1964 |
| Baryonyx | 1983 |
| Tyrannosaurus (Sue) | 1990 |
| Sinosauropteryx | 1996 |
| Jobaria | 1997 |
| Suchomimus | 1998 |
| Santana raptor | 2000 |
| Paralatitan | 2001 |
| Microraptor | 2001 |
| Jeholornis | 2002 |
| Rajasaurus | 2003 |
| Futalognkosaurus | 2007 |
| Massospondylus nests and eggs | 2012 |
| Dreadnoughtus schrani | 2014 |
