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VI.—Glyptops ruetimeyeri (Lyd.), a Chelonian from the Purbeck of Swanage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. M. S. Watson
Affiliation:
The Victoria University of Manchester

Extract

The Manchester Museum contains two ‘turtles’ from the Middle Purbeck Cap and Feather Bed of Swanage which are referable to Lydekker's Thalassemys ruetimeyeri. The first of these, L. 7017, was purchased from Swanage in 1906, and consists of a carapace lacking all the marginals, but otherwise complete and undisturbed. The second, L. 9520, was obtained by the writer from a quarry some 2 miles west of Swanage in March of this year. This specimen, although crushed, is important because it retains the whole shell, both carapace and plastron, with the exception of some of the peripherals.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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References

1 Lydekker, R., Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia in the British Museum (Natural History), 1889, vol. iii, p. 149Google Scholar.

2 Hay, O. P., “The Fossil Turtles of North America”: Carnegie Institution, Publ. 75, 1908.Google Scholar