BROAD-FRONTED ICHTHYOSAURUS — BROAD-TOOTHED ICHTHYOSAURUS. 
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length, and one cranium, from the Lower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar, purchased from 
the late ]\Ir. Wm. Lee. The species is recorded also by Morris (‘ Catal. Brit. Foss.’) 
from that locality, and hlr. Harrison reports it (‘Geol. L. and E.,’ p. 37) as having 
occurred in the Limestone “ Bottom Floor,” in the same pit as I. communis, etc. 
(see p. 177). 
BROAD-FRONTED ICHTHYOSAURUS. Ichthyosaurus latifrons, Kdnig. 
The British Museum possesses the following: — (R. 1122.) The type 
specimen, which appears to have been obtained from the Lower Lias of Barrow- 
on-Soar, and consists of the imperfect cranium, and a mass of matrix containing 
a large portion of the vertebral column. It was first figured by Konig in his 
‘ leones Foss. Sectiles,’ pi. xix., fig. 250, and the dorsal aspect of the skull was 
subsequently figured by Owen in his ‘ Liassic Reptilia’ (Mon. Pal. Soc.), pt. iii., 
pi. xxvii., fig. 1.* 
(38709.) A slab shewing the left lateral aspect of an imperfect skeleton from 
the Lower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar. It is interesting to note that impressions of 
the surface of the skin are shewn in the matrix. Figured and described by Owen^ 
‘ Liassic Reptilia,’ pt. iii., p. 119.* 
(36182.) “Slab exhibiting the right lateral aspect of a nearly entire 
skeleton ; from the Lower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar. The type of 1. longirostris 
(Owen). Figured by Owen in his ‘ Liassic Reptilia ’ (Mon. Pal. Soc.), pt. iii., 
pi. xxxii., fig. 7.”* 
And lastly (R. 1152) “ The imperfect posterior portion of a crushed 
cranium ; probably from the Lower Lias of Barrow-on-Soar.” * 
BROAD-TOOTHED ICHTHYOSAURUS. Ichthyosaurus platyodon (Conybea re). 
Although neither the British nor the Leicester Museum possesses any examples 
of this from Barrow-on-Soar, yet it is mentioned by Ansted (op. cit.) as occurring 
in the Lower Lias at that place, and it was probably, therefore, amongst the 
twenty-two skeletons which he states were in the public museum at Leicester ^ 
and in Mr. Lee’s museum, Barrow-on-Soar, and may have formed part of the latter 
collection, but I cannot as yet trace it. 
Ichthyosaurus (Conybeare ex Konig MS.) (sp. ind.). 
Potter, in his ‘ History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest,’ writes, at 
p. 64 : — 
“ The Rev. Robert Dutch, of Segrave, favoured me with the following com- 
munication respecting a very valuable Ichthyosaurus discovered at Barrow : — ‘ I 
had the pleasure, some years ago, through the kindness of Mr. Bradshaw, of 
presenting Dr. Buckland, among other fossil remains collected from our own as 
well as the Barrow lias, with a specimen of a small Ichthyosaurus, about five feet 
* Lydekker, ‘ Catalogue of Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia,’ part ii. 
