PALEONTOLOGY 



Vertebrate remains from the Kentish Wealden, so far at least as 

 pubhshed hsts go, appear to be singularly few. The carnivorous dino- 

 saur Megalosaurus oweni, typically from Sussex, is however represented in 

 the British Museum collection by a specimen from Tunbridge Wells. A 

 dinosaurian sacrum in the British Museum from the Hastings Sand of 

 Southborough has been made the type of a genus and species under the 

 name of Thecospondylus horneri, but its affinities are quite uncertain. 

 Lastly the crown of a large dinosaurian tooth from the Wealden of the 

 county has been referred by the present writer ^ to Pelorosaurus conybeari, 

 a genus and species typified by a gigantic bone of the fore-limb (humerus) 

 in the British Museum from the Wealden of Sussex. 



Few vertebrate remains are more common in the Sussex Wealden 

 than the knob-like teeth and large highly polished quadrangular scales 

 of the fringe-finned ganoid fish Lepidotus mantelli, and similar remains 

 have been recorded from the same formation at Tunbridge Wells. 



• Cat. Foss. Kept. Brit. Mus. iv. 240. 



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