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Reference numberPT/75/1/10
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, 'Emys benstedi. In the collection of Dr Mantell' by Jos [Joseph] Dinkel
Date[1841]
DescriptionPlate 12, figures 1-2 showing two views of a partial fossilised shell of the Emys benstedi [Cimochelys benstedi; an extinct marine turtle species], found in Kent [England] and held in Mantell's personal collection. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'Jos Dinkel del.'

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil remains of turtles, discovered in the chalk formation of the South-east of England' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.

Received by the Royal Society on 11 May 1841. Read 20 May 1841.
Extent1p
FormatPainting
Physical descriptionWatercolour and graphite on paper
Dimensions336x225mm
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0014
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0165
Related records in the cataloguePT/25/5
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7470Mantell; Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852)1790 - 1852
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