Abstract
BARON F. VON HUENE is well known by his numerous writings on fossil reptiles of strange and rare types which are represented by more or less fragmentary specimens. He has now turned his attention to the comparatively familiar ichthyosaurians, of which, perhaps, more nearly complete skeletons occur in museums than of any other reptiles. As he remarks, the osteology of this group is now rather well known. He therefore devotes his work chiefly to a definition of the species, with an attempt to arrange them in genera and to determine their relationships. He has made many new observations on the specimens from the Lias of south Germany, of which he publishes important illustrations. In this research he acknowledges especially the valuable help of Dr. Bernhard Hauff, of Holzmaden, whose fine preparations of Liassic reptiles and fishes are now scattered through many museums.
Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge.
Von Friedrich von Huene. Pp. viii + 114 + 22 Tafeln. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922.) 25s.
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W., A. Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge. Nature 112, 276 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112276a0
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