Stone lily fossil
Date
1850
Creator
S. Springsguth, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
20747
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a fossilised stone lily, of the Crinoidea class, shown with root, submerged in a block of limestone, and without root [bottom right], alongside various details of the specimen.
Inscribed above: ‘48’
Inscribed below: ‘S Springsguth Sculp’
Plate 48 from A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson’s Organic remains of a former world and Artis’s Antediluvian phytology […], by Gideon Algernon Mantell (London, 1850).
Written in the associated description: ‘This exquisite species of the extinct Crinoideans which swarmed in the seas of the secondary ages of Geology, is equally interesting and attractive to the amateur collector and the scientific observer. The specimen figured is a charming example of the "Stone Lily" partly expanded, attached to a block of limestone studded with encrinal ossicula.’
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852), British surgeon and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
Inscribed above: ‘48’
Inscribed below: ‘S Springsguth Sculp’
Plate 48 from A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson’s Organic remains of a former world and Artis’s Antediluvian phytology […], by Gideon Algernon Mantell (London, 1850).
Written in the associated description: ‘This exquisite species of the extinct Crinoideans which swarmed in the seas of the secondary ages of Geology, is equally interesting and attractive to the amateur collector and the scientific observer. The specimen figured is a charming example of the "Stone Lily" partly expanded, attached to a block of limestone studded with encrinal ossicula.’
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852), British surgeon and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
Related fellows
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790 - 1852, British) , Surgeon
Associated place