Fossils

• Joshua Platt, a curiosity dealer, continued
  1755 in paleontology
  -Fossils:* Joshua Platt, a dealer in curiosities, discovers three large dinosaurian vertebrae at Stonesfield. He sends them off for examination to a Quaker botanist, merchant, and friend of Benjamin Franklin named Peter Collinson. Sadly, Collinson never gives them Platt's desired examination, and...
  
   prospecting for fossils in Stonesfield
  Stonesfield
  Stonesfield is a village and civil parish about north of Witney in Oxfordshire.The village is on the crest of an escarpment. The parish extends mostly north and north-east of the village, in which directions the land rises gently and then descends to the Glyme at Glympton and Wootton about to the...
  
  . He met with success, finding an incomplete Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...
  
  thigh bone, which he noted and illustrated. This bone was included in the 1773
  1773 in paleontology
  -Fossils:* A unpublished catalogue of the fossil collection belonging to curiosity dealer Joshua Platt is compiled. A notable inclusion was a partial Megalosaurus thigh bone that Platt discovered in 1758. Sadly this fossil has been lost....
  
  catalogue of his large personal fossil collection.