PALZONTOLOGY 
From the Oxford Clay of Bedford the late Professor J. Phillips 
described the fore-limb of a long-necked plesiosaurian under the name 
of Plesiosaurus eurymerus. The species, of which nearly perfect skeletons 
have subsequently been obtained from the same formation in Huntingdon- 
shire, is characterized by the great width and shortness of the upper 
bone (humerus) of this limb, and is now known as Cryptoclidus eurymerus. 
Another plesiosaurian, Pe/oneustes philarchus, which is nearly related to 
Pliosaurus, is represented in the Oxford Clay of the county by an 
imperfect skeleton (now in the British Museum) from Kempston. 
Finally, an imperfect dermal spine in the same collection from the 
Oxford Clay of Bedford indicates the occurrence of an armoured 
dinosaur probably belonging to the genus commonly known as Omosaurus. 
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