M0006034: Turritella gastropod occuring as a fosil / M0006035: A flying reptile (Rhamphorhynchus Phyllurus) preserved in fine limestone

Date:
14 January 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/50/36
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M0006034: Turritella gastropod occuring as a fosil / M0006035: A flying reptile (Rhamphorhynchus Phyllurus) preserved in fine limestone. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Gastropod Turritella occuring as a fosil.
M0006035: A flying reptile (Rhamphorhynchus Phyllurus)

Description

Two images on one negative: the first is a reproduction of a photograph showing three forms in which the gastropod Turritella occurs as a fossil. The second is a photograph of the flying reptile Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus with the delicate wing membranes preserved as an imprint in a fine grand limestone. They are published in Schuchert, Charles: Outlines of Historical Geology, third edition, New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1937.

Publication/Creation

14 January 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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