Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . Pliosaurus brachydirus.—Left lateral (1), anterior (2), and superior (3), aspectsof an anterior, and left lateral (1) and anterior (2) aspects of a posteriorcervical centrum; from the Kimeridge Clay of Market-Easen. £. {AfterPhillips.) 42282. The centrum of a later cervical vertebra; from the KimeridgeClay of the Isle of Portland, Dorsetshire. Length 0,060(2-35 inches), width 0,100 (3-95 inches), height 0,078(3*15 inches). The upper part of the costal facet impinges on the facet for
Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . Pliosaurus brachydirus.—Left lateral (1), anterior (2), and superior (3), aspectsof an anterior, and left lateral (1) and anterior (2) aspects of a posteriorcervical centrum; from the Kimeridge Clay of Market-Easen. £. {AfterPhillips.) 42282. The centrum of a later cervical vertebra; from the KimeridgeClay of the Isle of Portland, Dorsetshire. Length 0,060(2-35 inches), width 0,100 (3-95 inches), height 0,078(3*15 inches). The upper part of the costal facet impinges on the facet for the arch. Purchased* 1869. 24684. The centrum of a dorsal vertebra probably belonging to thisspecies ; from the Kimeridge Clay of Wootton-Bassett,Wiltshire. Length 0,083 (3-24 inches), height 0,096(3*34 inches), width 0,115 (4*5 inches). The base of theneural canal is comparatively wide, moderately contractedin its anterior third, and Blightly expanded specimen closely resembles the dorsal from Shotoverfigured by Phillips on p. 346 as probably belonging tothis species ; and agrees in re
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