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I.—Notes on British Dinosaurs.1 Part V: Craterosaurus (Seeley).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Baron Francis Nopcsa
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In the course of my researches among British Dinosaurs the kindness of Dr. J. E. Marr and Professor T. McKenny Hughes has enabled me to investigate closely the fragmentary bone which Professor Seeley described in 1874 under the new generic name of Craterosaurus. Although the systematic position of the specimen had remained problematical from the day of its discovery, nevertheless the hope was entertained that in consequence of our present more ample knowledge of Dinosaurs and fossil reptiles in general, it might now be possible to determine the exact nature of this apparently most interesting fossil. The result was rather unexpected, for it became clear that what Seeley supposed to be the base of a cranium was nothing else than the neural arch of a dorsal vertebra showing the greatest resemblance to the corresponding element in Stegosaurus.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 11 , November 1912 , pp. 481 - 484
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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Footnotes

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Part I, Hypsilophodon, Geol. Mag., 1905; Part II, Polacanthus, loc. cit.; Part III, Streptospondylus, loc. cit.; Part IV, Geol. Mag., 1911.

References

page 481 note 2 Seeley, H. G., “On a Lacertilian Cranium from the Potton Sands”: Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc, vol. xl, pp. 690–2, 1874.Google Scholar

page 481 note 3 Nopcsa, , “Omosaurus Lennieri”: Bull. Soc. Géol. Normandie, tom, xxx, p. 11, anné 1910 (1911).Google Scholar

page 483 note 1 The difference between the Acanthopholididæ and the Nodosauridæ (= Ankylosauridæ) is best seen in the structure of the cranium. Details will be published on some other occasion.