John Lycett (1804-1882) was an English paleontologist.
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.
He was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1882.
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