Note on a Large Reptillian Skull from Brooke, Isle of Wight, probably Dinosaurian, and referable to the Genus Iguanodon
1871; Geological Society of London; Volume: 27; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1144/gsl.jgs.1871.027.01-02.27
ISSN2058-105X
Autores Tópico(s)Evolution and Paleontology Studies
ResumoIt is remarkable that so little is known of the skulls of the Wealden Dinosauria, the more so as their other remains have been procured in some abundance in the south-east of England and the Isle of Wight during the fifty years which have elapsed since Dr. Mantell’s discovery of an Iguanodon’s tooth in the quarry near Cuckfield. Hypsilophodon Foxii is, I believe, the only one the form and a great part of the structure of whose skull are known, and this only recently, from the Rev. W. Fox’s unique specimen, first exhibited at the Meeting of the British Association 1868, and described by Prof. Huxley in the 26th vol. of our Journal. Of the skulls of Iguanodon Mantelli and Megalosaurus Bucklandi , the only parts which have been determined are incomplete mandibles and fragments of maxillæ. The skull of Hylæosaurus is still, so far as I can learn, represented by the single small fragment of the base imbedded, at the end of the vertebral column, in the Tilgate-Forest slab, purchased by the British Museum of the late Dr. Mantell, and figured by him in his ‘Fossils of the British Museum,’ and by Prof. Owen in the ‘British Fossil Reptilia;’ and the skulls of Polacanthus Foxii, Pelorosaurus , the Cetiosauri , and Streptospondyli are altogether unknown. In August 1865 I saw in the Rev. W. Fox’s collection a fossil which he had recently found in Brixton Bay. I t was plainly a splendid fragment of what before its mutilation had been a very
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