Fossil shark and ray teeth
Date
1834
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 233mm
width (print): 189mm
width (print): 189mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sketches of the fossil teeth of cartilaginous fish, numbered as figures 1-5. Figure 1 is similar to the teeth of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni. However only figure 5 is identified as Psammodus.
The drawing appears on the reverse of an address cover, part of a letter from Richard Owen to William Buckland, 11 November 1834.
The work is inscribed in pencil below [by William Buckland?]: ‘are the junctions of the larger Teeth straight surfaces lie the upper side of Fig.5. no, slightly concave’.
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), British comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834.
William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist and dean of Westminster, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818.
The drawing appears on the reverse of an address cover, part of a letter from Richard Owen to William Buckland, 11 November 1834.
The work is inscribed in pencil below [by William Buckland?]: ‘are the junctions of the larger Teeth straight surfaces lie the upper side of Fig.5. no, slightly concave’.
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), British comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834.
William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist and dean of Westminster, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818.
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