| RefNo | PT/75/4/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, 'Caudal vertebrae of Pelorosaurus conybearei from the strata of Tilgate Forest' by Jos [Joseph] Dinkel |
| Date | 1849 |
| Description | Plate 22, figures 5-8 showing caudal vertebrae and chevron bones [haemal arches] from the Pelorosaurus conybeari, found in Tilgate Forest [West Sussex, England]. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. A pencil inscription bottom right reads 'G. Scharf lithog' and an ink inscription below this reads '(These figures are reduced to 1/4 linear.)' Signed in ink bottom left 'Jos. Dinkel delt 1849.'
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the pelorosaurus; an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Received by the Royal Society on 22 November 1849. Read 14 February 1850. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 280x213mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1850.0017 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0222 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/38/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7470 | Mantell; Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852) | 1790 - 1852 |