Archive image from page 121 of A descriptive catalogue of the. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London .. descriptivecatal02brit Year: 1910 ax. a. r.'f iff C. awj wA rfodrf Atlas and axis of Steneosaurus leedsi: A, from the left side; B, from behind. (R. 3806, \ nat. size.) Also of Steneosaurus durobrivensis : C, from left side ; D, from front. (R. 3701, £ nat. size.) , neural arch of atlas ; , anterior wedge-bone (hypocentrum) ; , neural arch o
Archive image from page 121 of A descriptive catalogue of the. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London .. descriptivecatal02brit Year: 1910 ax. a. r.'f iff C. awj wA rfodrf Atlas and axis of Steneosaurus leedsi: A, from the left side; B, from behind. (R. 3806, \ nat. size.) Also of Steneosaurus durobrivensis : C, from left side ; D, from front. (R. 3701, £ nat. size.) , neural arch of atlas ; , anterior wedge-bone (hypocentrum) ; , neural arch of axis ; </., diapophysis of axis ; , neural canal; od., odontoid (centrum of atlas); pa., posterior zyga- pophysis ; , r\/., facets for the heads of the ribs of the atlas and axis. almost uncrushed and undistorted. The specimens upon which the following account of the vertebral column in this genus is founded, are (1) a nearly complete ai;d uncrushed series of vertebra of St. leedsi (R. 3806), consisting of the atlas, axis, 'and seven other cervical vertebrae (1 one wanting), fifteen dorsals, two sacrals, and thirty-six caudals; (2) the vertebral column of the type specimen of St. durobrivensis (R. 3701), consisting of atlas, axis, and eight other cervicals, thirteen dorsals, two sacrals, and thirty-eight caudals.
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