On evidence of a bird from the Wealden beds of Ansty Lane, near Cuckfield / by H.G. Seeley.

  • Harry Govier Seeley
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On evidence of a bird from the Wealden beds of Ansty Lane, near Cuckfield / by H.G. Seeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    D = External aspect; E = Internal aspect. bone can be paralleled in some fossil referable to those groups. No British dinosaurs, however, are known of such small size, or with the shaft of the bone so compressed, with the condyles at once so well rounded and limited to the inferior surface. Nor am I aware of a dinosaur in which the shaft of the bone widens externally in harmony with the condyle produced distaily. Even in Hypsi- V°l. 55.] THE WEALDEN BEDS OF ANSTY LANE. 417 Colijmbus is the only existing bird to which the fossil makes any approximation ; but the resemblance is distant, and is not suggestive of near affinity. It is interesting that the Cretaceous birds show so marked an affinity with that type. The resemblances of the dinosaurian and crocodilian femora with this type are such that almost every individual feature of the Left femur of bird (?) : distal end, twice nat. size. B. SmIi? d«l.