On Murænosaurus Leedsii , a Plesiosaurian from the Oxford Clay. Part I

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While on a visit to Charles E. Leeds, Esq., M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, a gentleman whose specimens have more than once enriched the writings of Professor Phillips, I was shown a Saurian in such perfect preservation as previously, so far as I am aware, had rarely been seen except from the Lias. It was gathered from the Lower Oxford Clay (a stratum abounding in Plesiosaurians in the middle of England) in Huntingdonshire, in fragments almost innumerable, which have been adjusted and reunited with remarkable skill and zeal by the labours of Mr. Charles Leeds and his brother Mr. Alfred Leeds, so that now the animal displays:—the front and hinder parts of the skull; the lower jaw, somewhat over a foot long; a vertebral column of 79 vertebræ, from which, however, nearly all the tail is missing—the vertebræ preserved being 44 cervical, 3 pectoral, 20 dorsal, 4 pelvic, and 8 caudal; numerous ribs; the coracoids and scapulæ; the pubes, ischia, and iliac bones, together with both fore and hind limbs.

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