‘Cycnorhamphus fraasi’
Date
1901
Creator
Unknown, Printmaker
After
Miss E B Seeley (British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
R63154
Material
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of pterosaur Diopecephalus, her styled Cycnorhamphus fraasi, from lithographic slate preserved at Stuttgart, Germany. Showing the restoration of the skeleton in right profile.
Inscribed ‘FIG. 63. RESTORATION OF THE SKELETON CYCNORHAMPHUS FRAASI. SHOWING THE LIMBS ON THE RIGHT SIDE. From a specimen in the Museum at Stuttgart.’
Figure 63 to Dragons of the air: an account of extinct flying reptiles by H. G. Seeley, (London, 1901), facing page 170.
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.
Inscribed ‘FIG. 63. RESTORATION OF THE SKELETON CYCNORHAMPHUS FRAASI. SHOWING THE LIMBS ON THE RIGHT SIDE. From a specimen in the Museum at Stuttgart.’
Figure 63 to Dragons of the air: an account of extinct flying reptiles by H. G. Seeley, (London, 1901), facing page 170.
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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