| Description | Watercolour, with ink wash scale structure details, of the fossil fish Tetragonolepis angulifer Agassiz, by Joseph Dinkel, London, 1834. Found in the Lias, Stratford on Avon, from Richard Weaver’s Museum of Natural History, Birmingham.
Annotated by Agassiz, [1841]. |
| Administrative History | The original fossil was reported as being found by John Greaves in his stone quarry in Wilmerts, near Stratford upon Avon, c.1830:
‘Upon splitting the stone which was 19 inches long, 11 inches broad, and about 4 inches thick, almost the whole of the fish was attached to one side of it...upon the other side of the stone is an exact impression, with the fins and a few of the scales only attached; the colour of the fossil is dark brown, and glossy; the scales are very perfect, and but slightly attached to the body.’ (Magazine of Natural History, vol 5, 1832). |