Painting, 'Rotalia from chalk' by Joseph Dinkel and J Mounsey
Reference number: PT/75/3/15
Date: 1846
Description
Plate 21, figure 10 showing the internal parts of a Rotalia found in chalk in Dover [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'Joseph Dinkel & J. Mounsey delt.' Mantell also signed the painting in ink bottom right, 'G A Mantell'.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil remains of the soft parts of Foraminifera, discovered in the chalk and flint of the South-East of England' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Received by the Royal Society on 28 May 1846. Read 18 June 1846.
- Reference number
- PT/75/3/15
- Earliest possible date
- 1846
- Physical description
- Watercolour on artists' paper, mounted on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Painting
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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Painting, 'Rotalia from chalk' by Joseph Dinkel and J Mounsey, 1846, PT/75/3/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_3_15/painting-rotalia-from-chalk-by-joseph-dinkel-and-j-mounsey, accessed on 14 June 2026
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XXIII. On the fossil remains of the soft parts of, discovered in the chalk and flint of the South-East of England External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1846
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1846.0024
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On the fossil remains of the soft parts of foraminifera discovered in the chalk and flint of the South-east of England External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1851
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0096
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