Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21771

    Tertiary fossil shells, South America

    Date
    1844
    Creator
    George Brettingham Sowerby (1812 - 1884, British ) , II, Printmaker
    Object type
    Library reference
    35336
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    width (print): 310mm
    height (print): 195mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > fossil
    Description
    27 specimens of tertiary fossil shells from South America.

    Inscribed ‘Plate II. 1. Dentalium giganteum 2. Dentalium sulcosum 3. Dentalium majus. 4, 5, & 6. Balanus varians var. 7. Balanus coquimbensis 8. Mactra rugata 9. Mactra Darwinii 10. Grassatella Lyellii 11. Corbis Lœvigata 12. Tellinides oblonga 13. Venus meridionalis 14. Cytherea suleulosa 15. Cardium puelchum 16. Cardium maltiradiatum 17. Cardita Patagonica 18. Nucula glabra 19. Nucula ornata 20-21. Trigonocelia insolita 22-23. Cucullœa alta 24. Pecten geminatus 25. Anomia altermans 26-27 Terebratula Patagonica. G.B. Sowerby Junr.’

    Plate to Descriptions of tertiary fossil shells from South America by G. B Sowerby from Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S 'Beagle' by Charles Darwin, 1844.

    Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839.

    George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist.
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