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IV.—Note on some Fossil Remains of Emys lutaria from the Norfolk Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. T. Newton
Affiliation:
Geological Survey.

Extract

The remains of a Tortoise from that peculiar fluviatile deposit on the Norfolk coast, known as the “Mundesley River Bed,” have lately been placed in my hands for determination by Mr. C. W. Ewing, of Eaton, near Norwich, and, although the European freshwater tortoise has already been recorded as occurring in a fossil condition in Norfolk (Prof. A. Newton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1862, ser. 3, vol. x. p. 224), yet it seemed desirable that some notice should be taken of this most interesting discovery. The specimen was obtained by Mr. Ewing from the peaty bed in the cliff section at Mundeseley, so long ago as 1863; but it was only quite recently that it was for the first time exhibited, at one of the meetings of the Norwich Science Gossip Club.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1879

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page 305 note 1 The Mundesley specimen has recently been secured for the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, where it is now preserved.

page 305 note 2 See also his paper on the Zoology of Ancient Europe, read before the Cambridge PhiL Soc, March, 1862.

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page 306 note 5 The appearance of this Plate is unavoidably delayed till the August Number.— Edit. Geol. Mag.