Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . ied to the present; but the propodial bone of the paddlebelongs to a totally different and much smaller Sauropterygian. This species was founded upon an imperfect skeleton in the Cam-bridge Museum, in which there are some 18 or 19 cervical vertebras;specimens in the collection of A. N. Leeds, Esq., of Eyebury, Peter-borough, show the presence of 20 or 21 cervicals. Hob. Europe (England). 1 Index to Aves&c. in Cambridge Museum, p. 139 (18G9).—Plesiosaurus. 2 Loc. cit 3 Geol. Mag. dec
Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . ied to the present; but the propodial bone of the paddlebelongs to a totally different and much smaller Sauropterygian. This species was founded upon an imperfect skeleton in the Cam-bridge Museum, in which there are some 18 or 19 cervical vertebras;specimens in the collection of A. N. Leeds, Esq., of Eyebury, Peter-borough, show the presence of 20 or 21 cervicals. Hob. Europe (England). 1 Index to Aves&c. in Cambridge Museum, p. 139 (18G9).—Plesiosaurus. 2 Loc. cit 3 Geol. Mag. dec. 3, vol. v. p. 353 (1888). 155 R. 1253. A considerable portion of the skeleton; from the Oxford(Fir/.) Clay of Kempston, near Bedford. This specimen isdescribed, with figures of several portions, by the presentwriter in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc vol. xlv. pp. 48-56,pi. ii., woodcuts 4-9. The bones are in most casescrushed. The specimens comprise six upper teeth; thenearly entire mandible ; a number of vertebral centra,mostly from the dorsal, pectoral or lumbar, and caudal Fig. Peloneusesphilarchvs.—An upper tooth ; from the Oxford Clay ofBedford. \. Pig. 52.
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