On the Skull and greater Portion of the Skeleton of Goniopholis crassidens from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight)

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I. History of The Descovery of The Specimen. In the late autumn of 1904, at a place locally called ‘Tie Pits,’ near Atherfield Point (Isle of Wight), a large mass of the cliff, comprising many thousand tons of the Wealden Shales, subsided, pushing its foot across the beach, until below low-water line. As the sea washed away the base, the mass continued sinking, and fresh horizons were denuded. In 1905 a series of heavy ‘ground-seas’ cast up blocks of limestone and ironstone, containing crocodilebones, which were discovered on the sand, between high and low water marks. The skull came ashore in six pieces, and on as many different occasions. Scutes and fragments of bones were constantly picked up. One block found by a local fisherman was ibrwarded to the Sedgwick Museum, at Cambridge. After correspondence with Mr. Henry Keeping, the well-known Curator, I was put in communication with Prof. T. McK. Hughes, F.R.S., who, with great liberality and courtesy, wrote that in ' the interest of scientific progress' he thought that their block should be handed over to me, and this was accordingly done. The collection of the skull, etc. would have been impossible, but for the aid of Mr. Walter White, the coxswain of the Atherfield lifeboat, who obtained the separate portions by visiting the beach at every tide. The horizon whence the specimen was derived is 80 to 90 feet below the top of the Wealden Shales. II. History of The British Goniopholid Æ . The genus.

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