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    Image number: RS.9901
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    Fossil wolf jaw

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 186mm
    width (painting): 234mm
    Subject
    Earth Sciences
       > Palaeontology
          > Fossils
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > fossil
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 12 figure 10 from the paper "On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston...", by Joseph Whidbey with the supplementary paper "A description of the fossil bones found in the caverns of Oreston...", by William Clift, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.113 (1823), pp.78-90. Described by William Clift as "An outside view of part of the lower jaw of a wolf, which corresponds most exactly in number, form and size, with those of a full grown recent animal." Fossil found at Oreston quarry, near Plymouth in Devon. Inscribed with publication and plate details and in pencil upper left "Wolf. Page 13." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113.
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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