Abstract
ACCORDING to a report published by the daily Press, a nearly complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaurian, or fish-shaped fossil reptile, has been found in the shaft of the Hermann Göring Mine in the northern Harz Mountains. It is to be studied by Prof. J. Weigelt, of Halle, who estimates its length as 5· 10 metres, or nearly 17 feet. Such well-preserved large skeletons are very rare and difficult to extract from the rock in a perfect state. The largest Ichthyosaurian skeleton in the British Museum, which was obtained from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorset, would measure about 24 feet in length when it was complete. Several known Ichthyosaurian skulls from the Lias belong to individuals which must have been at least 30–40 feet long. One of the finest of these large skulls, from Lyme Regis, is exhibited in the rooms of the Geological Society of London at Burlington House.
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