Drawings, 'Caudal vertebrae of Pelorosaurus conybearei from the strata of Tilgate Forest' by Jos [Joseph] Dinkel

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.

Reference number

PT/75/4/2

Earliest possible date

01 January 1849

Physical description

Ink and ink wash on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Drawing