Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Vol. 3
This is the case with the first twenty cervical vertebrae in the specimen Tab. I, which appears to have settled in the Liassic mud back downwards, their spines being turned toward the right side; beyond the twenty-first cervical the vertebrae have rotated in the opposite direction, presenting more or less of a side view, with the neural arch and spine turned to the left; but most of the spinous processes have been removed with the matrix in the original exposure of the specimen. The trunk preserves the supine position, exposing the broad coracoids and pubes (6 with scattered, intervening, abdominal ribs. Part of the left pectoral fin (53 - 56) is in situ; a smaller part of the corresponding pelvic fin (65 - 67) lies across the pelvis.
No partial force has operated after interment to dislocate any of the vertebrae, save the few terminal ones of the tail, which have disappeared, probably dragged away with whatever tegumentary expansion may have there represented a caudal fin.
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