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Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology/Plate 17

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17. Coprolite from Lyme, containing large scales of Dapedium politum.
18. Coprolite from the Lias at Lyme, containing undigested bones of a small Ichthyosaurus.


Plate 15'. V. I. p. 156.

Cololite, or petrified intestines of a fossil fish from Solenhofen. (Goldfuss.)


Plate 16. V. I. p. 157.

1. Conjectural Restoration of the Skeleton of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus. (Conybeare.)
2. Skeleton of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, in the British Museum, from the Lias at Lyme Regis. (Scharf. Original.)


Plate 17. V. I. p. 158.

A nearly, entire and unique skeleton of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, 5 feet 7 inches long, from the Lias of Street, near Glastonbury. This skeleton forms part of the splendid series of fossil Saurians, purchased for the British Museum, from T. Hawkins, Esq. in 1834. See V. I. p. 162, and Note. (Hawkins.)