<p>Historical engraving of the lectotype dentary, Oxford University Museum of Natural Histroy (OUMNH) J.13505, of <i>Megalosaurus bucklandii</i> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r369756387">.mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}</style><span class="smallcaps">Mantell</span>, 1827 from the middle Bathonian Stonesfield Slate of Oxfordshire, England. These figures were published together with the first detailed description of the <i>Megalosaurus bucklandii</i> type material by William Buckland in 1824, who, however, did not coin a specific Linnean binomen for it but only used the name <i>Megalosaurus</i> (hence Buckland is only regarded the authority of the genus name, not of the specific binomen <i>Megalosaurus bucklandii</i>).<br>The caption below the figures reads “<i>Anterior extremity of the right lower jaw of the Megalosaurus. From Stonesfield, near Oxford.</i>”<br>The original explanation of the plate reads “<i>PLATE XL. </i>No. 1.<i> Inside view of the anterior portion of the lower jaw of the Megalosaurus on the right side. This drawing is of the actual size of the specimen. </i>No 2.<i> Transverse section of No. 1, showing the manner in which the tooth is lodged in the lower jaw.</i>”<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></p>
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36238855#page/557/mode/1up">digital copy of the explanation</a> at <i>Biodiversity Heritage Library</i></span>
</li>
</ol>
Mary Morland (later Buckland; 1797–1857)
1824
Plate 40 (XL) of William Buckland: <i>Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield.</i> Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Series 2, vol. 1, no. 2, 1824, S. 390–396 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/Publications/Notice%20on%20the%20Megalosaurus%20or%20great%20fossil%20lizard%20of%20Stonesfield%20by%20William%20Buckland%20Series%202%20Volume%201%202.pdf">digital copy</a> at geolsoc.org.uk).