[Ads-l] Antedating of "Stegosaurus"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Stegosaurus (OED 1892)

1880 _Spirit of Kansas_ 26 May 1 / 4 (Newspapers.com)  The smallest brain of any vertebrate land animal, in proportion to its size, appears to be that of Stegosaurus, a genus of extinct reptiles of gigantic size whose remains occur in Colorado and Wyoming, and have recently been described by Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale college.

Fred Shapiro

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