. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London ... Reptiles, Fossil. 96 MAEINE EEPTILES OF THE OXFOED CLAY. vertebrae on which this occurs are sometimes called pectorals (text-fig. 52). The ventral face of the cervical centra is concave from before backwards, and nearly flat or a little convex from side to side; on the middle line there is a low longitudinal ridge separating a pair of nutritive foramina. The edges of the centrum just before they Text-fiff. Pectoral and first dorsal vertebra
. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London ... Reptiles, Fossil. 96 MAEINE EEPTILES OF THE OXFOED CLAY. vertebrae on which this occurs are sometimes called pectorals (text-fig. 52). The ventral face of the cervical centra is concave from before backwards, and nearly flat or a little convex from side to side; on the middle line there is a low longitudinal ridge separating a pair of nutritive foramina. The edges of the centrum just before they Text-fiff. Pectoral and first dorsal vertebrae of Murmiosaurus durobrivensis. (E. 2863, | nat. size.) , anterior zygapophysis ; , neural spine ; , posterior zygapophysis ; , facets for ribs : s., neuro-central suture. pass into the articular faces are often marked by a series of fine plications, the presence of which seems to have led Phillips * to confer the name Plesiosaurus plicatus on the first named species belonging to the subsequently established genus Murcenosaurus. * ' Geology of Oxford ' (1871) p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Andrews, Charles William, 1866-1924. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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