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IV.—Note on a Mounted Skeleton of a Small Pliosaur, Peloneustes Philarchus, Seeley, sp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. W. Andrews
C. W. Andrews
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History).
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The skeleton figured on Plate XII is that of a small Pliosaur, Peloneustes philarchus, Seeley, sp. This specimen was obtained from the Oxford Clay in the neighbourhood of Peterborough by Mr. A. N. Leeds, F.G.S., to whom the British Museum is indebted for a great series of more or less perfect skeletons of many species of Oxford Clay Reptiles, including the beautifully preserved and nearly complete examples of Cryptocleidus oxoniensis and the remains of Cetiosaurus leedsi, now mounted in the Gallery of Fossil Reptiles. So far as I am aware, this is the first skeleton of a Pliosaur that has been mounted so as to show the true form of the body in those reptiles. All the bones belong to a single individual, but the left-hand paddle and the distal portion of the other paddles being wanting, they have been represented by plaster models made from the paddles of another individual, which are exhibited on the floor of the case. The left ischium has been modelled from that of the opposite side.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , March 1910 , pp. 110 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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References

1 Index to Aves, etc., in the Cambridge Museum, 1869, p. 139.

2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1889, vol. xlv, p. 48.Google Scholar