GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Reptilia

      Order Dinosauria

Megalosaurus bucklandi von Meyer, 1832 – See Powell (1987): Syntype

Megalosaurus bucklandi von Meyer, 1832 – See Swinton (1955): Syntype

Megalosaurus – See Phillips (1871)

Megalosaurus bucklandi von Meyer, 1832 – See Owen (1857): Syntype

Mégalosaurus – See Cuvier (1824)

Megalosaurus – See Buckland (1824)

– See Conybeare (1821)

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

BUCKLAND, W. 1824. Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield. Trans. geol. Soc. Lond., Second series, 1, 390-396, pls XL-XLIV. p. 396; pl. XLIII, fig. 2

CONYBEARE, W.D. 1821. Notice of the discovery of a new fossil animal forming a link between the Ichthyosaurus and the crocodile, together with general remarks on the osteology of the Ichthyosaurus. Trans. geol. Soc. Lond., 5, 559-594. p. 592

CUVIER, G.L. 1824. Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, V (2). Dufour and d'Ocagne, Paris, Amsterdam, 547 pp., pls I-XXXIII, 2nd ed. p. 348; pl. XXI, fig. 25

OWEN, R. 1857. Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations, part III. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-26, pls I-XII. pp. 12 - 13; tab. IV, fig 1

PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. p. 202; diag. LIX, fig. 7

POWELL, H.P. 1987. A megalosaurid dinosaur jawbone from the Kimmeridge Clay of the seabed of West Bay, Dorset. Proc. Dorset. nat. Hist. archaeol. Soc., 109, 105-108. p. 106

SWINTON, W.E. 1955. Megalosaurus, the Oxford dinosaur. Adv. Sci., 12, 130-134. p. 130