Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . e Oxford Clay of Weymouth. \. co, rib; , pro-,, postzygapophysis. mentioned skeletons of C. 2^iccitvs ; and the complexityof the zygosphenal articulation so characteristic of thisgroup is well shown. The caudal has been somewhatdistorted by pressure ; it shows the nearly entire chevronsanchylosed to the centrum. It is somewhat larger andrelatively shorter than the caudal of C. plicatus, 1262 (p. 237), but has the same general restored pectoral girdle ass
Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . e Oxford Clay of Weymouth. \. co, rib; , pro-,, postzygapophysis. mentioned skeletons of C. 2^iccitvs ; and the complexityof the zygosphenal articulation so characteristic of thisgroup is well shown. The caudal has been somewhatdistorted by pressure ; it shows the nearly entire chevronsanchylosed to the centrum. It is somewhat larger andrelatively shorter than the caudal of C. plicatus, 1262 (p. 237), but has the same general restored pectoral girdle associated with these ver-tebra is shown in fig. 74. Made in the Musi ///, 1888. PART II. R 242 SATJKOPTERYGIA. R. 1283. Cast of a smaller middle (?) cervical vertebra. Theoriginal belongs to an imperfect skeleton (No. 41) fromthe Oxford Clay of Peterborough, Northamptonshire, inthe collection of A. N. Leeds, Esq., of Eyebury, near thattown. The dimensions of the centrum are :—length 0,040(1-56 inches), height 0,043 (1-68 inches), and width 0,053(2-08 inches) ; the height from the base of the neural Eig. Cimoliosaurus richardsoni.—Ventral aspect of the restored pectora girdle ;from the Oxford Clay of Weymouth. About TV- sc, scapula; , ven-tral (precoracoidal) plate of do.; gl, glenoid canity. The shaded portionsare those preserved. canal to the summit of the spine being 0,102 (4 inches).The relatively great height of the neural spine is inmarked contrast to that of the cervical of C. eurymerus,No. E. 1284 (p. 206). As in the preceding specimen thewhole of the sutures are obliterated. Made in the Museum, 1888. 47426. The centrum of an immature dorsal vertebra probablyreferable to this species; from the Oxford Clay ofWhittlesea, near Peterborough. This specimen is relativelyshorter than in the dorsals of C. plicatus, in which respectit agrees with those associated with No. R. 1263. Sharp Collection. Purchased, 1876. 47426 a. Two smaller dorsal centra of similar type ;
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