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- ↑ Bach, J. (1966). "Dampier, William (1651–1715)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ Lhuyd, E. (1699). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, sive lapidium aliorumque fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium. London: Gleditsch and Weidmann.
- ↑ Delair, J.B.; Sarjeant, W.A.S. (2002). "The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 113: 185–197. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80022-0.
- ↑ Gunther, R.T. (1945). Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14. Oxford.
- ↑ "Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France.