Identifier: quarterlyjourn301874geol (find matches)
Title: The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London Note: actually not a book but a periodical comprising many volumes.
Year: 1845 (1840s) Note: actually the release date of the 1st volume of this periodical. The release year of the volume which contained the figure described here (i.e. vol. 30) was 1874.
Authors: Geological Society of London Note: the Geological Society of London is not the author but the publisher of the periodical. The true authors of the figure are G. H. Ford and C. L. Griesbach.
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.) Note: see the note on the author above.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Original explanation of plate:
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXI.
Fig. 1. Right side of seventh cervical vertebra of Murænosaurus Leedsii.
       2. Front view of thirty-third cervical vertebra.
       3. Left side of the thirty-ninth and neural arch of the thirty-eighth cervical vertebræ.
       4. Front view of centrum of third caudal vertebra.
       5. Under surface of centrum of fifth caudal vertebra.

Notes: This plate illustrates a paper in this volume of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London on pp. 197–208. The full reference of this work reads as follows:

• Harry G. Seeley (1874): On Muraenosaurus leedsii, a plesiosaurian from the Oxford Clay. Part I. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:197–208.

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