Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19116

    ‘Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus’

    Date
    1901
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    After
    Miss E B Seeley (British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    R63154
    Material
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Study of pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, here styled Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus, showing the restoration of the skeleton in left profile.

    Inscribed ‘ FIG.56. RESTORATION OF THE SKELETON OF RHAMPHORHYNCHUS PHYLLURUS. From the Solenhofen Slate, partly based upon the skeleton with the wing membranes preserved.’

    Figure 56 to Dragons of the air: an account of extinct flying reptiles by H. G. Seeley, (London, 1901), page 161.

    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
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