. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). UPPER JURASSIC PLESIOSAUROIDEA 301 Kimmerosaurus langhami sp. nov. (Figs 26-39) Name. In honour of R. A. Langham, Esq., of Reading, Berkshire, who found the holotype skull in 1967 and presented it to the British Museum (Natural History) the following year. Holotype. , a disarticulated incomplete skull consisting of the frontals, parietals, squamosals and pterygoids; the right postfrontal, postorbital and fused exoccipital- opisthotic; the left quadrate; the basioccipital; the right angular and fused surangular- articular; the dentary an
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). UPPER JURASSIC PLESIOSAUROIDEA 301 Kimmerosaurus langhami sp. nov. (Figs 26-39) Name. In honour of R. A. Langham, Esq., of Reading, Berkshire, who found the holotype skull in 1967 and presented it to the British Museum (Natural History) the following year. Holotype. , a disarticulated incomplete skull consisting of the frontals, parietals, squamosals and pterygoids; the right postfrontal, postorbital and fused exoccipital- opisthotic; the left quadrate; the basioccipital; the right angular and fused surangular- articular; the dentary and 11 isolated teeth. Type locality and horizon. Endcombe Bay (also known as Egmont Bay), on the coast about 5 km south of Corfe Castle, Dorset, England. Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian Stage. From the Kimmeridge Clay; the exposed cliff section at Endcombe Bay consists litho- logically of the Crushed Ammonite Shales, which are included (Arkell 1933) in the zone of Pavlovia Fig. 26 Kimmerosaurus langhami gen. et sp. nov. Holotype, Skull roof in ventral view, 0-8. See Fig. 32, 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). London : BM(NH)
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