Stingray fossil
Date
1697
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Description
14 diagrams showing the fossilised tongue and mandible of a stingray, here styled Pastinaca marina, dug up by Dr Tancred Robinson in Mary-Land, America.
Plate to An Account of the Tongue of a Pastinaca Marina, frequent in the Seas about Jamaica, and lately dug up in Mary-Land, and England. By Hans Sloane. M.D. published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 232 (Sep 1697) pp.674-676.
Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Tancred Robinson (c.1658-1748) British physician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1684.
Plate to An Account of the Tongue of a Pastinaca Marina, frequent in the Seas about Jamaica, and lately dug up in Mary-Land, and England. By Hans Sloane. M.D. published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 232 (Sep 1697) pp.674-676.
Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Tancred Robinson (c.1658-1748) British physician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1684.
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