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Original caption of the plate: The femur of the Megalosaurus; one fourth nat size.

Fig. 1. Hinder surface.
   „   2. Inner surface.

From the Oolitic Slate, of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire. In the British Museum.

Notes:

  • Meaning of letters (according to description on Vol. I, p. 345): a = femoral head, b = groove between neck of femoral head and “great trochanter”, c = “great trochanter” (corresponds to the anterior or lesser trochanter of modern terminology), d = “inner trochanter” (corresponds to the 4th trochanter of modern terminology), e = inner condyle (medial condyle, Condylus medialis femoris), f = outer condyle (lateral condyle, Condylus lateralis femoris), g = “anterior or rotular interspace” (anterior intercondylar groove).
  • The “Oolitic Slate, of Stonesfield” today is called Stonesfield Slate referred to the Taynton Limestone Formation which is of Middle Jurassic (middle Bathonian) age.[1]
  1. ↑ modern anatomical terms and stratigraphy according to Roger B. J. Benson (2010): A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(4): 882–935, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00569.x
Date between 1849 and 1884
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1849-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Dinosauria Plate 29 in: Richard Owen: A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Vol. II (plates). Cassell & company limited, London
Author J. Erxleben (graphic artist)

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