John Lycett

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John Lycett (1804-1882) was an English paleontologist. He was a physician at Minchinhampton from c.1840-1860. In 1860 he moved to Scarborough in Yorkshire and the "wide dispersal of his magnificent collection of fossils from this area [quarries on Minchinhampton Common ] commenced". His monograph on the Great Oolite is one of just a handful of monographs describing and illustrating the British Jurassic gastropod and bivalve fauna.

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He was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1882. [1]

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Taxa established by Morris & Lycett

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References

  1. "Lyell Medal". The Geological Society of London. Retrieved 2022-05-16.