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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)] ...palatine (fragment of R), nasals (parts of both), pre-frontals (2), frontals (2), post-frontal (L), quadrate (L), squamosal (L), lacrimals (2), basisphenoid, basioccipital, parietals (2), alisphenoids (2), prootics (?2?), teeth (2); rib fragments (5), vertebrae (8 dorsals, 1 caudal, 1/2 unknown, 3 transverse processes of dorsal vertebrae); coracoids (2), scapula (L), ilium (R), ischium (L & blade of R), pubis (distal half of R), many unplaced fragments.
Two tooth-like puncture holes at a similar level in each splenial, and the lack of coherent more distal jaw portions, appears to indicate that this individual's snout was bitten off - needs to be confirmed.
A note on the Ingham card suggests that this might be the same specimen as the small vertebrae of V958, but the size of their centra seem significantly smaller.
Young age is inferred not so much from its small size, as the lack of fusion of its vertebral and mandibular elements.
Two juvenile teeth selected for SEM@Bristol University (Exit 3204). | 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 : CROCMETR : 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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