John Lycett (1804-1882) was an
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. He was a
physician
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at
Minchinhampton
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from c.1840-1860. In 1860 he moved to
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in Yorkshire and the "wide dispersal of his magnificent collection of fossils from this area
uarries on Minchinhampton Common commenced". His monograph on the
Great Oolite
The Great Oolite Group is a Middle Jurassic stratigraphic unit that outcrops in southern England. It consists of a complex set of marine deposits primarily mudstone and bioclastic ooidal and fine grained limestone, deposited in nearshore to she ...
is one of just a handful of monographs describing and illustrating the British
Jurassic
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gastropod and bivalve fauna.
He was awarded the
Lyell Medal by the
Geological Society of London in 1882.
Works
*1851-1854 with the geologist
John Morris ''A monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite. Volume 1, Chiefly from Minchinhampton and the coast of Yorkshire'' (in three parts published between 1850 and 1854, covering cephalopods, gastropods and worms as well as bivalves).
*1863 with John Morris ''A Monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite'' Supplement - Volume 2: Mollusca from the Stonesfield Slate, Great Oolite, Forest Marble, and Cornbrash.
*1857 ''The Cotteswold Hills. Hand-book introductory to their geology and palaeontology''. Piper, Stephenson and Spence, London.
Taxa established by Morris & Lycett
partial list
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Megalodontidae
Megalodontidae is an extinct family of bivalve molluscs that reportedly lived from the Devonian to the Jurassic period.
Nomenclature
A family of insects was also previously called "Megalodontidae", containing the sawfly genus '' Megalodontes'' ...
Morris & Lycett, 1853
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Purpuroidea Lycett, 1848
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Nododelphinula buckmani'' (Morris & Lycett, 1850
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Amberleya'' J. Morris & Lycett, 1851
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Plagiostoma bellula'' Morris and Lycett 1853
References
*Hugh S. Torrens and Michael A. Taylor Collections, collectors and museums of note No. 55 Geological collectors and museums in Cheltenham 1810-1988 A case history and its lessons ''Geological Curator'', Vol.5, No.5, 1990 (for 1988), pp. 175–21
online pdf*Lambrecht W, Quenstedt W, Quenstedt A. (1938) ''Palaeontologi: Catalogus bio-bibliographicus. Fossilium Catalogus'' I: Animalia 72: 1–495.
eprinted 1978, Arno Press, New York*Cleevely R.J. (1983) ''World palaeontological collections''. British Museum (Natural History) and Mansell, London, 365 pp.
English palaeontologists
1882 deaths
1804 births
Lyell Medal winners
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