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]
↑ 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.
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