Abstract
SOME years ago an article appeared in the columns of this journal (vol. xxviii. p. 439), in which a notice was given of the marvellously preserved skeletons of Jgnanodon from the Wealden deposits of Bernissart, in Belgium, some of which are now exhibited in the Brussels Museum of Natural History. In that article the author very properly insisted upon the extreme importance of those specimens from an anatomical point of view, as exhibiting the whole of the bones of the skeleton in their natural juxtaposition. He was, however, probably then unaware (as the undermentioned specimen was not at that time exhibited to the public) that the British Museum possessed the skeleton of an English Dinosaur, which, although of smaller size than the Bernissart Iguanodons, belongs to the same sub-ordinal group, and exhibits equally clearly the mutual relations of the component bones. The English skeleton is, indeed, in some respects much more satisfactory than the Belgian specimens, inasmuch as its bones have not been flattened and crushed in the manner which so sadly disfigures those of the latter. Further, the English Dinosaur has an additional interest in that it is one of quite the earlier members of the group, its geological horizon being the Lower Lias of Dorsetshire.
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L., R. The Entire Skeleton of an English Dinosaur. Nature 40, 324–325 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040324a0
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