Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . maining portion of the vertebralcolumn is shown, together with the pectoral and pelvicgirdles, and the left humerus and femur. The specimenis noticed by Sollas, op. cit. pp. 470, 471, who remarks itsclose resemblance to the type, and also that there is pro-bably some malarrangement in the cervical region, althoughit was not suggested that the earlier vertebras were speci-fically distinct. The anterior extremities of the coracoidsare wanting, but it is evident that, as in the type, t
Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ..By Richard Lydekker .. . maining portion of the vertebralcolumn is shown, together with the pectoral and pelvicgirdles, and the left humerus and femur. The specimenis noticed by Sollas, op. cit. pp. 470, 471, who remarks itsclose resemblance to the type, and also that there is pro-bably some malarrangement in the cervical region, althoughit was not suggested that the earlier vertebras were speci-fically distinct. The anterior extremities of the coracoidsare wanting, but it is evident that, as in the type, thesebones did not overlap the omosternum to such an extentas in P. hawJcinsi. This skeleton is noticed by Davies inthe Geol. Mag. dec. 1, vol. i. p. 144, as the type ofP. laticeps. Purchased. PLESIOSAUEID^. 271 2056*. An imperfect late cervical vertebra, apparently referable tothis species ; probably from Lyme-Regis. Hawkins Collection. Purchased, 1834. C. Longirostrine comparatively large, with long mandibular vertebras of moderate length, vrith the terminal faces of Fig.
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