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| SOES Geology Collection / Diapsid
Reptiles / Ichthyosaur Vertebra
Macropterygius ?thyreospondylus from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset. NB at about a 21 cm diameter vertebra this was a large beast ! Photographs © Barry Marsh SOES Museum label notes are the bottom of page |
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Notes from label: 16618 Macroptergius
?thyreospondylus.
A vertebral centrum from the Kimmeridge clay
of Dorset (exact site unrecorded). Figured and described as
M. ?thyreospondylus by J.B.Delair under
the sub-heading "The largest known British Kimmeridgian Ichthyosaur"
in "Some Little Known Jurassic Ichthyosaurs from
Dorset", 1986. Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc., vol.107
(1985), pp.127-134 (see pp.133-134, pl.4).