Henry Riley | |
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![]() Undated portrait of Henry Riley | |
Born | 1797 |
Died | 1848 (age 50-51) Bristol |
Nationality | English |
Known for | Discovery of Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geology, Natural history, Anatomy |
Henry Riley (1797–1848) [1] was a British surgeon, anatomist, naturalist, geologist and paleontologist. [2] He is notable for being the co-discoverer and co-describer of the archosaur Palaeosaurus and the dinosaur Thecodontosaurus. [3]
Henry Riley was born in Bristol in 1797. [4] He trained to become a surgeon in Paris and he graduated during the mid-1820s. [1] [5] He was one of the men who founded the Bristol Institution in the 1820s. Riley was involved in a body snatching scandal in the late 1820s - he was fined £6 ( inflated to £657.29 in 2019) in 1828. He was later revoked of this claim during the 1830s.
His Geoffroyan lectures of 1831-33 were the first to be heard in Bristol. [1] He was a physician at St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol in 1832 and the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1834 and 1847. [1] He taught at Bristol Medical School until he retired in 1846. [1]
In the autumn of 1834, Riley [1] and the curator of the Bristol Institution, Samuel Stutchbury, began to excavate "saurian remains" at the quarry of Durdham Down, at Clifton, presently a part of Bristol, which is part of the Magnesian Conglomerate. In 1834 and 1835, they briefly reported on the finds. [6] They provided their initial description in 1836, naming the new genera Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus. [7]
Riley died in 1848 in Bristol, aged 50 or 51. [4]
Henry Riley | |
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![]() Undated portrait of Henry Riley | |
Born | 1797 |
Died | 1848 (age 50-51) Bristol |
Nationality | English |
Known for | Discovery of Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geology, Natural history, Anatomy |
Henry Riley (1797–1848) [1] was a British surgeon, anatomist, naturalist, geologist and paleontologist. [2] He is notable for being the co-discoverer and co-describer of the archosaur Palaeosaurus and the dinosaur Thecodontosaurus. [3]
Henry Riley was born in Bristol in 1797. [4] He trained to become a surgeon in Paris and he graduated during the mid-1820s. [1] [5] He was one of the men who founded the Bristol Institution in the 1820s. Riley was involved in a body snatching scandal in the late 1820s - he was fined £6 ( inflated to £657.29 in 2019) in 1828. He was later revoked of this claim during the 1830s.
His Geoffroyan lectures of 1831-33 were the first to be heard in Bristol. [1] He was a physician at St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol in 1832 and the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1834 and 1847. [1] He taught at Bristol Medical School until he retired in 1846. [1]
In the autumn of 1834, Riley [1] and the curator of the Bristol Institution, Samuel Stutchbury, began to excavate "saurian remains" at the quarry of Durdham Down, at Clifton, presently a part of Bristol, which is part of the Magnesian Conglomerate. In 1834 and 1835, they briefly reported on the finds. [6] They provided their initial description in 1836, naming the new genera Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus. [7]
Riley died in 1848 in Bristol, aged 50 or 51. [4]