The Ornithosauria: An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of CambridgeSeeley, H. G. (Harry Govier)
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The Ornithosauria: An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge
Seeley, H. G. (Harry Govier)
Pterosauria
A fragment of the lower jaw of a large Ornithocheirus has been
obtained from an outlier of the Upper Greensand at Rocken End in
the Isle of Wight. It appears to indicate a distinct species. It is
2-1/2 inches long, and shows three large teeth still preserved in
their sockets. The extreme width outside the third pair of sockets
is nearly 2 inches. The sides, which are slightly concave from above
downward, converge so as to give the broken end a triangular outline.
In front is a small sub-triangular area, deeply scored with vascular
markings; below this the outline slopes obliquely backward, and the
two sides there round convexly into each other. The first socket is
7/16ths of an inch long, the tooth coarsely striated, and like the
others elliptical; the interspace between the first and the second
teeth is 5/16ths of an inch. The second tooth, probably immature, is
an inch in length, smooth, and like the third traversed in front and
behind by a slight lateral ridge; at the base it measures 5/16ths
of an inch from front to back. The third tooth is rather less than
5/8ths of an inch from front to back. The interspace between the
first and second _sockets_, which the teeth do not entirely fill,
is more than 1/4 of an inch. The posterior margin of each socket is
elevated into a sort of collar.
APPENDIX.
_Enumeration of some of the principal writings on the Ornithosauria
(selected chiefly from Von Meyer's Reptilien aus dem
Lithographischen Schiefer), with references to the shelves in the
Cambridge University Library, where the books may be consulted._
Agassiz (Louis).--Memoires Soc. Nat. Neuchâtel, Vol. 1, p. 19,
_paragraph notice in a memoir_, "Résumé des travaux de la section
d'histoire naturelle, et de celle des sciences medicales
pendant l'année, 1833" B. 3. 66.
A briefer notice in a paper, "A Period in the History of our
Planet," in Edinburgh New Phil. Journal, 1843, Vol. 35,
p. 9, quoted by Von Meyer XXVIII. 36. 65.
de Blainville (D.).--Osteographie; Palæotherium, p. 9 (Vol. 2),
quoted by v. Meyer AF. 5. 9.
Bonaparte (C. L.).--Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali Bologna[1],
Vol. 1, 1838, p. 391; Vol. 4, 1840, 24 Sept. p. 91.
Blumenbach.--Manuel d'Histoire naturelle, éd. 1803, Vol. 2,
p. 408 B. 12. 20.
(Vergleichende Anatomie, 1805, p. 75), § 44, Translation,
1807 Tt. 18. 51.
Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, 1825, p. 620 Yy. 39. 6.
Burmeister.--Gesellsch. zu Halle, Vol. 3, Part 2, 1855;
Viertel-jahrsbericht, 28 April, p. 11 XXVI. 50. 2.
Collini.--Acta Acad. Theod. Palat. 1784, Vol. 5,
p. 58, pl. 1. 17. 5. 34.
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