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Before Tyrannosaurus rex was thought of as the archetypical carnivorous dinosaur, it was the 7 m long Megalosaurus bucklandi which held that position for much of the 19th century. The first ever dinosaur to be officially described, (in the 1820s) Megalosaurus was, alongside the herbivorous Iguanodon, among the three main genera that Sir Richard Owen used to define the Dinosauria, and the genera Owen described captivated the minds of the Victorian public with sculptures built after 1852 in the Crystal Park Palace Gardens by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
The European Megalosaurus, like its kin such as Eusteptospondylus and Torvosaurus, would have inhabited a coastal, insular forest-wetland setting, where it would have occasionally swam from island to island and tilt also would’ve either preyed upon stegosaurs, ornithopods and sauropods or scavenged upon marine animals washed ashore such as this Stenopterygius ichthyosaur, as shown here.
I myself gave the creature a grayish color scheme so as to remind you all that the Victorians used to think of dinosaurs as having shades of green, gray or brown, and also because this was the first Dinosaur to be officially described. (In the old Dino encyclopedias that I read in my childhood Megalosaurus was shown in shades of grey, so that influences how I colored the dinosaur as shown here.

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Description
Before Tyrannosaurus rex was thought of as the archetypical carnivorous dinosaur, it was the 7 m long Megalosaurus bucklandi which held that position for much of the 19th century. The first ever dinosaur to be officially described, (in the 1820s) Megalosaurus was, alongside the herbivorous Iguanodon, among the three main genera that Sir Richard Owen used to define the Dinosauria, and the genera Owen described captivated the minds of the Victorian public with sculptures built after 1852 in the Crystal Park Palace Gardens by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
The European Megalosaurus, like its kin such as Eusteptospondylus and Torvosaurus, would have inhabited a coastal, insular forest-wetland setting, where it would have occasionally swam from island to island and tilt also would’ve either preyed upon stegosaurs, ornithopods and sauropods or scavenged upon marine animals washed ashore such as this Stenopterygius ichthyosaur, as shown here.
I myself gave the creature a grayish color scheme so as to remind you all that the Victorians used to think of dinosaurs as having shades of green, gray or brown, and also because this was the first Dinosaur to be officially described. (In the old Dino encyclopedias that I read in my childhood Megalosaurus was shown in shades of grey, so that influences how I colored the dinosaur as shown here.

NosoyRidley NRD23456