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Description: | Peterborough [district, Cambridgeshire], [England] [probably ex.] [Bed 10 (Hudson & Martill, 1994)], Oxford Clay [Formation, Peterborough Member, ("Gryphaea and Reptile Beds")], [*Kosmoceras jason jason* Zone],[Middle Callovian], [Jurassic (Middle)] ....neural spine fragments (14), neural arch fragments (16), ribs: cervical (4 unattached, many others still attached), dorsal (13, plus 7 fragments), caudal (4, still attached), shoulder-girdle: scapulae (2), coracoids (2-fused, but broken), right fore-paddle: humerus, radius, ulna, pisiform, radiale, ulnare, intermedium, carpals (3), metacarpals (5, 1 broken), phalanges (33), left fore-paddle: humerus, radius, ulna, radiale, ulnare, intermedium, carpals (2), metacarpals (3, 1 broken), phalanges (12); unidentified fragments (61). Lower jaw is both mandibles fused together at the anterior symphysis, but minus the posterior joint articulating parts of each ramus. 14-20 socket-spaces visible on each side. Left coracoid appears to bear part of the left clavicle. Each of the fore-paddles is mounted on grey painted wooden panels (possibly ex.-Leeds: the panel for the right fore-paddle features a newsprint 'Muraenosaurus' label, very like the type found occasionally on the specimens - seems very primitive next to the labels prepared by WR Smellie, which seems to lend support to the argument that they may have been Alfred's own - similar grey-painted boards have been encountered supporting *Ophthalmosaurus sp.* paddles - photograph in E. Thurlow Leeds' book seems to portray similar boards, but exclusively of *Cryptoclidus sp.*, and hanging at right angles to the fixtures we have) with wall-mounting fixture on the back. Both are currently kept in the Wendy House (old horse/elephant cases) cupboards, for use in the second term geology practical that deals with vertebrate palaeontology, as examples of pyrite rot damaged specimens. JKI has moved them around recently, and describes them as stable, as the rot does not seem to have increased in the paddles during their storage around the main part of the museum. [6 of the dorsal ribs show callus growth of bone following injury, and 5 of them are on display in Earth-Life in the Main Hall of the museum, at station 8E - 'In Sickness and in Health'. An old note with the specimen reads 'In urgent need of ethanolamine thioglycolate treatment'.
1 paddle annually used by M.Reilly. Removed for annual second term loan (2360) to JKI on 31(28)/1/2000 - returned, along with other paddle, by JKI on 7/2/2000. Retired from these annual loans in January 2002, and replaced by other specimens. Loan GEO:2579 to MReilly (zoology) for one afternoon's teaching (25/11) - returned 29/11/2002. Loan 2661, returned 22/12/2003. Loan 3271, out 24/1/2011 on Loan 3271.
It is possible that this specimen is in fact *Muraenosaurus beloclis* (- see 'Process' sub-form). | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | VERTTETRREPTIL : PLESIELAS : BIOPATH : FOSSIL : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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