Liston, Jeff (2014) Alfred Nicholson Leeds and the first fossil egg attributed to a ‘saurian’. Historical Biology, 26 (2). pp. 229-235. ISSN 0891-2963

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Abstract

Discovered by the nineteenth century collector Alfred Nicholson Leeds, the first object to be described (1898) as a fossil reptile egg is a unique find from the Oxford Clay near Peterborough. It also comes from one of a very small number of Jurassic localities worldwide that can claim to have yielded a fossil egg. Given its historical and contemporary significance, this object is reassessed in the light of increased understanding of such objects. Data from scanning electron microscopy, computerised tomography, synchrotron imaging, X-ray diffraction and petrographic thin sectioning prove inconclusive. However, the presence of apparent external openings resembling angusticanaliculate pores – a pore type common only to certain types of dinosaur eggshell – in both size and sparseness of distribution prevents its summary dismissal as not being a dinosaurian egg.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Alfred Nicholson Leeds, dinosaur egg, Oxford Clay, Callovian
Subjects:	A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) A General Works > AS Academies and learned societies (General) D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain Q Science > QE Geology Q Science > QH Natural history Q Science > QL Zoology
Theme:	Understanding the natural world
Department:	Natural Sciences
Related URLs:	https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/collections-departments/nat... (Organisation)
Depositing User:	Ross Anderson
Date Deposited:	17 Sep 2018 14:16
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2018 14:16
URI:	http://repository.nms.ac.uk/id/eprint/2106

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