Publications
Note on a new Wealden iguanodont and other dinosaurs, by Richard Lydekker, published January 1888 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 44, issue 1-4, article, pp.46-61) View Online
Abstract:The primary object of this communication is to bring to the notice of the Society numerous remains of an apparently new Iguanodont Reptile obtained by Mr. C. Dawson, F.G.S., of St. Leonards, from the Wadhurst Clay (one of the beds of the Hastings Sand, or lower division of the Wealden), and recently acquired by the British Museum; and also a maxilla from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight, apparently referable to Ornithopsis. Having, however, recently examined the whole of the collection of Dinosaurian remains preserved in the Museum, in the course of the preparation of the first part of the forthcoming 'Catalogue of Fossil Reptilia' of the collection, I have also made certain observations regarding other members of the order, which may be conveniently recorded at the same time.
On a sauropodous dinosaurian vertebra from the Wealden of Hastings, by Richard Lydekker, published January 1893 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 49, issue 1-4, article, pp.276-280) View Online
Abstract:In an earlier volume of this Journal Mr. Hulke figured and described certain vertebræ of a large Sauropodous Dinosaur from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight, under the name of Ornithopsis, that name having been substituted for Eucamerotus, which the author had previously intended to use on account of its being the earlier. I have subsequently had reason to indicate that the name Ornithopsis itself must, for the same reason, yield to Hoplosaurus, which was proposed by Gervais on the evidence of a tooth of the same animal.
On a Mammalian Incisor from the Wealden of Hastings, by Richard Lydekker, published January 1893 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 49, issue 1-4, article, pp.281-283) View Online
Abstract:Hiltherto the only evidence of the existence of mammals in the English Wealden is afforded by a cheek-tooth from the Wadhurst Clay of Hastings, described recently by Mr. A. Smith Woodward, and referred to the Purbeckian genus Plagiaulax. I am now, thanks to Sir John Evans, K.C.B., in a position to affirm the presence of a second mammal in the same formation, which likewise seems to be referable to a genus originally described from the Purbeck.
Palaeontology, by R. Lydekker, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., published 1905 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 1: Natural History, Geology, pre-medieval Archaeology, the Domesday survey, and Political History, pp.27-40, , facsimile edition published 1973, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905855 & ISBN-13: 9780712905855) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2398] & The Keep [LIB/500089] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online