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Apr 12, 1814 Barbados Died on 04 Sep 1890 (aged 76)
British paleontologist
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About Samuel Beckles
- Samuel Husbands Beckles (12 April 1814 in Barbados – 4 September 1890 in Hastings) was a Bajan/English 19th-century lawyer, turned dinosaur hunter, who collected remains in Sussex and the Isle of Wight.
- In 1854 he described bird-like trackways that he thought could have been made by dinosaurs, which he later identified as probably those of Iguanodon in 1862.
- In 1857, following the discovery of a mammal jaw at Durlston Bay, he directed a major excavation that became known as 'Beckles' Pit', removing five metres of overburden over a 600 square metre area, one of the largest ever scientific excavations.
- The collection of mammal fossils that resulted is now mainly held at the Natural History Museum.
- He discovered the small herbivorous dinosaur Echinodon.
- The only known species Echinodon becklesii, the mammal Plagiaulax becklesii and the dinosaur Becklespinax were named in his honour.
