Alfred Nicholson Leeds

Alfred Nicholson Leeds (1847–1917), English amateur palaeontologist, fossil collector, and Fellow of the Geological Society. Father of Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955, archaeologist, museum curator, and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945).

Eponyms

• Leedsichthys
• Omosaurus leedsi, synonym of Dacentrurus leedsi
• Ornithopsis leedsi, synonym of Cetiosauriscus leedsi
• Sarcolestes leedsi

References

• Leeds, E.T. 1956. The Leeds Collection of Fossil Reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Oxford: Blackwell Ltd.