Earth Collections: Jurassic database
Specimen details for Registration Number J.12144
Species name: Metriacanthosaurus parkeriAuthor: (von Huene, 1926)
Taxonomic Group: Dinosauria
Nature of Specimen:
Preparation:
Horizon: Oxford Clay. Jurassic
Locality: Jordan Cliff, Overcombe, 1.5 miIes north of Weymouth, Dorset
Collector:
Donor: J. Parker
Conservation:
Notes: 1. J.12144 is the skeleton of which there are 83 parts, some of which are described and figured in publications.
References:
1. HUENE, F. von. 1923. Carnivorous Saurischia in Europe since the Triassic. Bull. geol. Soc. Am., 34, 449-458.; p. 453, as Megalosaurus parkeri
2. HUENE, F. von. 1926. On several known and unknown reptiles of the Order Saurischia from England and France. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 17, series 9, 473-489.; pp. 477 - 478, as Megalosaurus Parkeri sp. nov.
3. HUENE, F. von. 1926. On several known and unknown reptiles of the Order Saurischia from England and France. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 17, series 9, 473-489.; pp. 74 - 76, as Megalosaurus parkeri von Huene, 1926
4. DELAIR, J.B. 1959. The Mesozoic Reptiles of Dorset, part 2. Proc. Dorset nat. Hist. archaeol. Soc., 80 (for 1958), 52-90.; p. 78, as Megalosaurus parkeri von Huene, 1926
5. WALKER, A.D. 1964. Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosaurus and the origin of Carnosaurs. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., series B., 248, 53-134.; p. 117, as Metriacanthosaurus parkeri (von Huene, 1923) HOLOTYPE of Type species
6. MARTILL, D.M. 1988. A review of the terrestrial vertebrate fossils of the Oxford Clay (Callovian-Oxfordian) of England. Mercian Geologist, II (3), 171-190.; p. 186, as Metriacanthosaurus parkeri (von Huene, 1926) HOLOTYPE
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