PELONEUSTES EVANSI. 



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Peloneustes evansi, Seeley, sp. 



[Text-figs. 27, B; 28, 29.] 



1869. Pliosaurus evansi, Seeley, Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, etc., in the Woodwardian 



Museum, Cambridge, p. 116. 

 1871. Pliosaurus ? grandis, Phillips, Geology of Oxford, p. 317. 

 1877. Pliosaurus evansi, Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxiii. p. 716. 

 1890. Peloneustes evansi, Lydekker, Catal. Foss. Rept. Brit. Mus. vol. iv. (Supplement) p. 273. 



Type Specimen. — Cervical and dorsal vertebra?, coracoid, and numerous fragments 

 from the Oxford Clay of St. Neots ; Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. 



The type specimen was described and figured by Seeley in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 



Text-fig. 27. 



A. 



cor. art&s.ang. 



ang. 



Mandible of (A) Peloneustes philarchus (E. 3803) and (B) Peloneustes evansi (R. 2443). 



(About -jiy nat. size.) 

 ang., angular ; art. 8f s.ang., articular aud surangular ; cor., coronoid ; d., dentary ; spl., splenial. 



vol. xxxiii. (1877) pp. 716-723, figs. 1-7. The atlas and axis, which are not fused 

 with one another, are figured, as also are the centra of another cervical (\ fourth) and 

 the first dorsal. The coracoid is described and figured as an ischium, an error 

 corrected in the Geol. Mag. [3] vol. iv. (1887) pp. 478-9. Mr. Lydekker in the 

 Supplement to the Catal. Foss. Rept. Brit. Mus. vol. iv. p. 273, suggested that 

 the mandible (text-fig. 27, B) and the paddle (except the humerus) figured by Phillips 

 in the ' Geology of Oxford' (1871) pp. 317 & 318 as Pliosaurus ? grandis, really belono- 



