On the Skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens; an Ornithosaur from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight)
@article{HooleyOnTS, title={On the Skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens; an Ornithosaur from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight)}, author={Reginald Walter Hooley}, journal={Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London}, volume={69}, pages={372 - 422} }
The late Rev. W. D. Fox, of Brighstone (Isle of Wight), discovered in the Wealden Beds of Brook in that island many associated ornithosaurian bones. These were acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1882, when they purchased his important collection. They are numbered R/176, and classified by Mr. R. Lydekker under Ornithocheirus nobilis (Owen) as ‘not improbably belonging to this species.’ In 1888 the hinder portion of the skull was shown by Mr. Lykedder to Mr. E. T. Newton, at the…
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