| Description | Watercolour study, with scale details, of an incomplete specimen of the fossil fish Centrolepis asper, by Joseph Dinkel, 1853. Found in the Lias, on the beach under the Black Ven, Lyme Regis, by 'Jonas', from the collection of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen. |
| Administrative History | 'Jonas' may be Jonas Wishcombe a fossil hunter from Charmouth. He is referenced in Thomas Hawkins' Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, extinct monsters of the ancient earth, with twenty-eight plates, copied from specimens in the author's collection of fossil organic remains', London: Published by Relfe and Fletcher (1834). |