Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) By Richard Lydekker (1888) (14779269305)

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Title: Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ..

Year: 1888 (1880s)

Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915

Subjects: Reptiles, Fossil Amphibians, Fossil

Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ity of /. longirostris with thisspecies is mentioned by Tate and Blake intheir Yorkshire Lias, p. 254 (1870). JIab. Europe (England and Wurtemberg). 1 Icones Foss. Sectiles, pi. xix. (1825). 2 Liassic Reptilia (Mon. Pal. Boc), pt. iii. p. 124 (1881). Also mentioned byMantell in his Petrifactions and their Teachings, p. 385 (1851). 3 Op. cit. p. 120.—Errorim. 1 Nova Acta Ac. Ctes. Leop.-Car. vol. xxv. pt. 2, p. 939 ct scq. (1866).5 This figure is really a reversed view of the right limb, but it is less liable tocause confusion by terming it left. 90 ICHTHYOPTEKYGT A, R. 1122. The imperfect cranium, and a mass of matrix containing a(Fig.) large portion of the vertebral column : probably from theLower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. The typespecimen. Figured by Konig in his Icones Eoss. Sectiles,pi. xix. fig. 250, and the dorsal aspect of the skull by Owenin his Liassic Reptilia (Mon. Pal. Soc), pt. iii. pi. xxvii.fig. 1, from which the accompanying woodcut is reduced. Pig. 33.

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osaurus latifrons.—Frontal aspect of the imperfect cranium; from theLower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar. ■§■. nar, nares ; na, nasals ; prf, prefrontalfr, frontal; ptf, postfrontal; pto, postorbital; pa, parietal; st, supra-temporal fossa. The rostrum of the cranium is broken off immediately inadvance of the nares ; the orbital region preserves itsoriginal contour, and the parietal foramen and supra-temporal fossae are entire. The alveolar margins of thepalate are imperfect. Both the centra and arches of thevertebral column are preserved. No history. 38709. Slab showing the left lateral aspect of an imperfect skeleton ; (Fir/.) from the Lower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire.The greater portion of the cranial rostrum is wanting, andthe caudal region is also imperfect. The coracoids and theleft side of the pelvis are also shown, but the limbs are ICHTHYOSIURIDJE. 91 very imperfect. Impressions of the surface of the skinare shown in the matrix. This specimen is described byOwen in

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