On the affinities of the Stereognathus ooliticus (Charlesworth) : a mammal from the oolitic slate of Stonesfield / by Professor Owen.

  • Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.
Date:
1857
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the affinities of the Stereognathus ooliticus (Charlesworth) : a mammal from the oolitic slate of Stonesfield / by Professor Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    1/14
    [From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London for February 1857-] ON THE AFFINITIES OF THE STEREOGNATHUS OOLITICUS (Charlesworth), A MAMMAL FROM THE OOLITIC SLATE OF STONESFIELD. PROFESSOR OWEN, F.R.S., F.G.S. &c. [Plate I.] The Rev. J. P.B. Dennis, F.G.S., lately did me the favour to place in my hands, for examination, the portion of jaw with teeth, imbedded in the oolitic slate of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, which he had, two years before, submitted to Mr. Charlesworth of York, by whom the fossil was introduced to the notice of the Geological Section of the British Association at the meeting at Liverpool in 1854. The portion of bone exposed to view is about 9 lines in extent, and is part of a ramus of the lower jaw, containing three molar teeth (PI. I. figs. 1 & 2). It is nearly straight; the side exposed is convex vertically, which indicates it to be the outer side ; a slight bend downwards, and de- crease of vertical diameter, towards the end a, indicate it to be part