A description of various fossil remains of three distinct saurian animals discovered in the autumn of 1834 in the Magnesian Conglomerate on Durdham-Down, near Bristol

Citation

Riley, H.; Stutchbury, S. (1836). A description of various fossil remains of three distinct saurian animals discovered in the autumn of 1834 in the Magnesian Conglomerate on Durdham-Down, near Bristol. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2: 397-399.

Names first published here

• Thecodontosaurus genus
• Thecodontosaurus antiquus species

Cited by genera

• Thecodontosaurus

  Erects Thecodontosaurus and the type species T. antiquus on dentary and tooth material from the Durdham Down fissure fill; one of the first five non-avian dinosaurs ever named.