Index to the fossil remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge

Citation

Seeley, H. G. (1869). Index to the fossil remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. 1-143. Deighton, Bell, and Co..

Names first published here

• Gigantosaurus genus
• Gigantosaurus megalonyx species

Cited by genera

• Cryptosaurus

  Coins the name Cryptosaurus eumerus with a brief shelf-location note but no diagnosis or description — a nomen-nudum precursor to the 1875 description.

• Gigantosaurus

  Erects Gigantosaurus megalonyx on a syntype series of sauropod bones from the Kimmeridge Clay of the Ely district. No etymology and no diagnosis are given.