Where were the first discoveries of dinosaurs made?

The first recorded discoveries of dinosaurs in the western world were made in Britain in the early decades of the 19th century. Megalosaurus, the very first described dinosaur, was found in Britain in about 1817 by some quarrymen in the village of Stonesfield in North Oxfordshire. These bones were finally described and named scientifically by Dr Buckland in 1824. Just one year later Dr Gideon Mantell described the remains of the second dinosaur which he named Iguanodon. The first remains of this dinosaur had been unearthed a little earlier near Cuckfield in Sussex.