166 BRITISH FOSSIL REPTILES. 



CHAPTER VI. Order— DINOSAURIA, Owen. 



Genus — Megalosaueus, Buclclancl} 



Species — Megalosaurus Buchlandi (Dinosauria, Plate 87). 



At the date of the printing of vol. i, pp. 329 — 354, no other parts of the skull 

 of the Ifegalosmtrus BueJdandi had been discovered or determined save the portion 

 of the dentary element of the lower jaw, with teeth (now in the Geological 

 Museum at Oxford), on which Dr. Buckland, in 1824, founded the genus and 

 species ; and a second mandibular specimen, from the same formation and locality, 

 obtained, in 1851, by the Duke of Marlborough, and of which, by His Grace's 

 permission, a description (pp. 348 — 351) and Plate 34, (vol. i) were taken. I was 

 also able to extend the range of the great carnivorous Saurian by detached teeth, 

 kindly transmitted to me, from the " Corn-brash " of Oxfordshire, to the " Bath 

 Oolite " of Somersetshire, and the " Wealden " of Sussex (vol. cit., p. 351). 

 Results of a study of these specimens are recorded in pp. 348 — 351. 



Some years later, 1868, two portions of an upper jaw were obtained by Professor 

 Phillips, F.R.S., on which he founded the restoration of the skull of Megalosaurus, 

 given in, Diagram Ivii, of his ' Geology of Oxford."" 



In 1882 additional cranial and dental evidences of Buckland's genus and species 

 were obtained by Edward Cleminshaw, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., from the " Freestone" 

 of the Inferior Oolite, near Sherborne, Dorset.^ 



Blocks of this stone were in course of preparation for a building, when 

 indications of imbedded fossils being detected by Mr. Cleminshaw on fractured 

 surfaces of the quarry-stones, he withdrew all such from the building-yard and 

 transmitted them to the British Museum for identification. 



Further requisite development of these remains having been thci^e carried out, 

 the following descriptions and drawings, the subjects of Dinosauria, PI. 87, 

 were taken. 



In the section devoted to the genus Megalosaurus, in vol. i, pp. 339 — 354 of 



1 Buckland (Eev. "Wm., F.E.S., G-.S.), " Notice in the Megalosaurus," Ac, in ' Transactions of 

 the Geological Society of London,' Ito, 2nd Series, vol. i, 1824, pp. 390 — 39G, plates si — xliv. 



2 8vo, 1871, p. 199. The same specimen is the subject of a paper by Professor Ilusley, F.E.S., 

 in vol. sxv of the ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.' 



^' • Dorset County Chronicle,' June 15th, 1882 ; " Eeport of a Meeting of the Dorset Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Field Club." 



