Mastodon giganteus tooth
Date
1850
Creator
S. Springsguth, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
20747
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a molar tooth of the Mastodon giganteus, from the now-extinct Mammutidae class, at natural size.
Inscribed below: ‘Drawn and Engraved by S. Springsguth’
A Grinding tooth of the MASTODON GIGANTEUS of Ohio ______ weight. 4. lb. 7. oz.’
Plate 74 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: ‘From a perfect skeleton lately set up in the British Museum (in the same room with that of the Megatherium), a correct idea may be obtained of this peculiar type of mammalian structure. From this specimen it appears that the great Mastodon of the Ohio was not unlike the elephant In its general outline, though somewhat longer and thicker. It had a trunk or proboscis, tusks which curved upward, and four molar teeth in each jaw, but no incisors.’
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852), British surgeon and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
Inscribed below: ‘Drawn and Engraved by S. Springsguth’
A Grinding tooth of the MASTODON GIGANTEUS of Ohio ______ weight. 4. lb. 7. oz.’
Plate 74 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: ‘From a perfect skeleton lately set up in the British Museum (in the same room with that of the Megatherium), a correct idea may be obtained of this peculiar type of mammalian structure. From this specimen it appears that the great Mastodon of the Ohio was not unlike the elephant In its general outline, though somewhat longer and thicker. It had a trunk or proboscis, tusks which curved upward, and four molar teeth in each jaw, but no incisors.’
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
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