Geological magazine . o. ?>-r.^ THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE NEW SERIES. DECADE III. VOL. VIII. No. VII.—JULY, 1891. OI^IC3-I^:^^.A.^L -A-E-tiglies. I.—Note on a neakly perfect Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus TENUmOSTRIS FROM THE LoWER LlAS OF StREET, SOMERSET. By E. Lydekker, , , , etc. (PLATE IX.) SOME ten years ago Mr. Alfred Gillett observed in a quarry ofthe Lower Lias near his residence at Overleigh, Street, Somer-set, a number of broken slabs of shaly limestone, containing por-tions of the skeleton of an Ichthyosaur. These slabs, which hadbeen cast aside by the workmen, were fit
Geological magazine . o. ?>-r.^ THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE NEW SERIES. DECADE III. VOL. VIII. No. VII.—JULY, 1891. OI^IC3-I^:^^.A.^L -A-E-tiglies. I.—Note on a neakly perfect Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus TENUmOSTRIS FROM THE LoWER LlAS OF StREET, SOMERSET. By E. Lydekker, , , , etc. (PLATE IX.) SOME ten years ago Mr. Alfred Gillett observed in a quarry ofthe Lower Lias near his residence at Overleigh, Street, Somer-set, a number of broken slabs of shaly limestone, containing por-tions of the skeleton of an Ichthyosaur. These slabs, which hadbeen cast aside by the workmen, were fitted together by Mr. Gillett,who finally succeeded, after the expenditure of great pains, in skil-fully developing from them an almost entire example of the skeletonof Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris, Conybeare. With his usual liberality Mr. Gillett presented this remarkablybeautiful specimen to the Geological Department of the BritishMuseum (JNatural History) in 1884, where it is now exhibited onthe east wall of Gallery N
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