Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19111

    ‘Dimorphodon’

    Date
    1901
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    Object type
    Library reference
    R63154
    Material
    Subject
    Earth Sciences
       > Palaeontology
          > Fossils
    Content object
    nature
       > fossil
    Description
    Photographic study showing the fossilised pterosaur, Dimorphodon, discovered by William Buckland FRS in 1829 on the Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.

    Inscribed ‘FIG. 48. REMAINS OF DIMORPHODON FROM THE LAIS OF LYME REGIS. SHOWING THE SKULL, NECK, BACK AND SOME FO THE LONGER BONES OF THE SKELETON. From a slab in the British Museum (Natural History).’

    Figure 48 to Dragons of the air: an account of extinct flying reptiles by H. G. Seeley, (London, 1901), facing page 143.

    Harry Govier Seeley (1839-1909) British geologist and palaeontologist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He was awarded the Croonian Medal in 1887 with his lecture on Pareiasaurus bombidens (Owen) and the significance of its affinities to amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. His work on fossil reptiles was published in a ten-part series in the Philosophical Transactions from 1888 to 1896.
    Related fellows
    Harry Govier Seeley (1839 - 1909, British) , Palaeontologist
    William Buckland (1784 - 1856, British) , Dean of Westminster, Geologist
    Associated place
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