NHMUK PV OR 14550

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A partial skeleton – holotype specimen of Avalonnectes arturi. Preserved on a slab on display in the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen was formerly part of the Hawkins’ Collection, which the British Museum (=NHMUK) purchased in two lots in 1834 and 1840. The skull is kept in storage and is not on display with the rest of the skeleton....

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BRSMG Cb 2335

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A complete skeleton exposed in ventral view – the holotype specimen of A. megacephalus (BRSMG Cb 2335). The skeleton was housed in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, but it was destroyed by enemy action during the Blitz in World War II. However, surviving plaster casts are housed in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK R1309/1310); the...

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BRSMG Cb 2479

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A nearly complete skeleton, the holotype of Attenborosaurus. Destroyed during the Blitz in the Second World War. At least three casts of the specimen were made and survive today. One is on display in the Natural History Museum, London. There is also a damaged cast (specimen TCD.47763) in Trinity College, Dublin (Wyse Jackson 2004), and a cast in the...

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SGO PV 957

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Skeleton including the skull, atlas- axis, 12 anterior cervicals, 23 middle-to-posterior cervicals, most of the trunk, both almost complete forelimbs, and most of the proxi- mal portion of the right hind limb. Holotype specimen of Aristonectes quiriquinensis....

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HMG V1091

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A substantially complete skeleton missing the tail and skull. Mounted on display with the tail of a different individual (HMG V1104) and a replica head....

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MPPL 18797

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Partial skull and mandible; 32 isolated teeth; cervical, dorsal and caudal vertebrae; right scapula and coracoid; partial left humerus; left radius; left ulna; three left carpals; a partial pelvis; femur; two epipodials; and isolated metapodials and phalanges....

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