 Liston subsequently dedicated a dissertation and a series of articles to "Leedsichthys", providing the first extensive modern osteology of the animal.Apart from the British discoveries, finds of a more fragmentary nature continued to be made in Normandy, France.In July 1982, Germany became an important source of "Leedsichthys" fossils when two groups of amateur palaeontologists, unaware of each other's activities, began to dig up the same skeleton at Wallücke.