Crocodile!
As a part of the project we are also trying to solve a few of the puzzles in the collections. These include trying to identify specimens that don't appear to match what their labels say they are.
One example we came across early on but have only just finished digitising is the skull of a crocodile, supposed to be from the Jurassic rocks of Somerset.
Dr Richard Butler is leading a group researching early reptiles and came across this specimen when visiting Ludlow to look at material held here. The question is, was this specimen an early Jurassic crocodile as its label suggests, or a specimen from a later geological period that was placed in the wrong collection?
The answer? It is actually most likely to be a crocodile from the Siwalik Hills of northern India and Pakistan, that is a part of collection brought to Ludlow in the 1840s, and somehow misplaced and mislabelled many years ago.