50 STRATIGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE 



The fine remains of a Megalosaurus bucklandi secured by 

 Mr. E. Cleminshaw (then of Greenhill, Sherborne, but at 

 the present time, 1915, of Birmingham), and now in the 

 Sherborne School Museum, are stated by (Sir Richard) 

 Owen, who described and figured them (1 ^> to have come from 

 the " Inferior Oolite " of " near Sherborne." They came 

 from the Sherborne Building Stone of garantiance hemera. 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxix (1883), pp. 334 34.6, and pi. xi., 

 figs. 1, 2, and 3. Casts of the specimens figured by Owen have been 

 made and are exhibited in the Natural History Museum, South Kensing- 

 ton, to which institution Mr. Cleminshaw presented the counterpart 

 of the large piece that depicted in fig. 1. 



Mr. Cleminshaw informs me 



" I did not actually find the remains myself. A friend told me that 

 in some building-stone got out for building a new house in Cold Harbour, 

 Sherborne, what he thought were reptilian remains had been found. 

 From his description, in answer to my enquiries, I knew at once what 

 they were and secured them. The site of the quarry in which the 

 remains were found is very near the back of the houses on the north 

 side of Cold Harbour Road, but it is quite possible that the quarry, 

 which was only opened for building -stone, may not now be used. There 

 were many small quarries round Sherborne, which were worked for a 

 short time and then abandoned (in litt., 10th Sept., and 13th Oct., 

 1914.) 



" The middle part of the crown of a tooth : from the 

 Inferior Oolite of Selsl[e]y Hill, Gloucestershire " is in the 

 Natural History Museum (R. 497). It was figured by Owen 

 in his " Wealden and Purbeck Reptilia," pt. iii., pi. xii., 

 fig. 5 (1). The precise horizon is not given. 



CROCODILIA. 



Steneosaurus megistorhi/nchiis (Deslongchamps). " Frag- 

 ment of maxillary rostrum, showing three dental alveoli." 



" Gryphite-Grit " (shirbuirnice). Bajocian. 



( Vide R. Lydekker, Cat. Fossil Reptilia in the Brit. 



Mus., pt. i. 1888, p. 116.) 



1 Vide R. Lydekker, Cat. Fossil Reptilia in the Brit. Mus., pt. 1 

 (1888), p. 161. 



