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V.—Note on a gigantic Cephalopod Mandible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. C. Crick
G. C. Crick
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British Museum (Natural History).
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The British Museum has recently received (in the James W. Butler collection, presented by his daughter, Miss Daisy Butler) a particularly fine mandible of a gigantic fossil Cephalopod. Unfortunately the locality of the fossil is not recorded, but as the collection contained quite a number of specimens from Bradford Abbas (Dorset) and the immediate neighbourhood, and the matrix of this specimen agrees very closely with that of those examples, there can be little doubt that the locality of the fossil is almost certainly Bradford Abbas, or the immediate neighbourhood, and that the specimen is of Bajocian age.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 1916 , pp. 260 - 264
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1916

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