John Lycett
John Lycett 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 commenced". His monograph on the Great [Oolite Group|Great Oolite] is one of just a handful of monographs describing and illustrating the British Jurassic 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 (geologist)|John Morris] A monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite. Volume 1, Chiefly from Minchinhampton and the coast of Yorkshire.
- 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- Megalodontidae Morris & Lycett, 1853
- Purpuroidea Lycett, 1848
- Nododelphinula buckmani (Morris & Lycett, 1850
- Amberleya J. Morris & Lycett, 1851
- Plagiostoma bellula Morris and Lycett 1853