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Description: | 10 boxes of fossilised plesiosaur bones. Bones are pale grey in colour. Some have yellow dots painted on them and numbers to indicate which order they go in. The plesiosaur was found by Henry Preston at Saltersford in May 1914, and excavated. Photographs of the bones in-situ in photograhic file. There is no head, the bones mainly consist of ribs and vertebrae, and parts of the flippers - rear left and right ilium and front left and right humerus. This plesiousaur is larger than the Lincoln specimen, and would probably have been 20 foot+ in length. 46 vertebrae and 1 internal vertebrae disc, originally labelled T1, T2 etc. Now marked on yellow discs on anterior 1, 2, 3 etc. T stood for tail, labelled from posterior end, 1-34, 14 is missing, and intervertebral disc is number 10. Neck was originally labelled on anterior side N1, N2, now labelled with yellow discs as I, II, III. Labelled from anterior end numbers I-XIII. Some bones missing from thoracic region, some anterior neck and posterior tail vertebrae are also missing. This was a medium sized specimen aged about 16 when it died. | Subjects: | Fossils | Temporal: | 5.1914 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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