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A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK the same deposit and locality have been obtained teeth of the shark. Odontaspis cuspidata} So far at least as published records are concerned vertebrate remains appear to be exceedingly scarce in the Suffolk Chalk, and no species seem to have been named from that formation in the county. Probably fish teeth have been obtained from some of the chalk pits of the county, but it must suffice to mention that the British Museum possesses some of the well know^n crushing teeth of the ray-like Ptychodus latissimus from the Upper Chalk of Orford/ As regards fossils from pre-Cretaceous deposits there is a vertebra of Ichthyosaurus thyreospondylus from the Kimeridge Clay of Stanton near Bury St. Edmunds in the collection, last named.'

  • See Cat.Fots. Fisi. Brii. Mm. i. 369. * Ibid. i. 149.

^ See Cat. Yon. Reft. Brit. Mtu. ii. 39. 46