Lepidosaur collection
Part of the fossil skeleton of the mosasaur Platycarpus ictericus. This 83-81 million-year-old specimen is from Kansas, USA.
The Natural History Museum’s lepidosaur collection includes material from Triassic fissure sites in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notably of the gliding lizard Kuehneosaurus.
There are important early Cretaceous lizards from the Isle of Purbeck, including a lot of type material, and late Cretaceous mosasaurs from Europe, North America and New Zealand.
Tertiary material includes 2 unique Lower Miocene amphisbaenids from Rusinga Island, Kenya:
- Listromycter
- Lophocranion
A large number of Eocene lizards and snakes have been accumulated since the 1980s through:
- the donation of the Gardner Collection from Hordle Hampshire in 1981
- an extensive programme of staff collecting from Eocene and Oligocene localities from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight