Abstract

Patrick N. Wyse Jackson (Curator, Geological Museum, Dept. of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland) writes: 'I am attempting to trace the wherabouts of an ichthyosaur that is missing from the collections of the Geological Museum, Dept. of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin. It is an example of Ichthyosaurus communis from the Lias of Lyme Regis. The specimen is quite distinctive in that both sides of the lower jaw are visible, and the tip of the tail is flexed downwards. It was figured by S. Haughton in his Manual of Geology (1865, fig. 35, opp. p. 272) (reproduced here as Fig. 1); a second ichthyosaur figured on this page (Fig. 36)...

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