| Description | Watercolour study of a jaw and tooth from the fossil fish Tomognathus mordax [leiodus] Agassiz, by Joseph Dinkel, [1847-1850]. From the collection of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen.
Note: the drawing references Dixon, F & Sir P d M G Egerton "VI Descriptions of the Fossil in the Chalk Formation - Pisces", in: Dixon, F. 'The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex', London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, (1850), p376. A version of the jaw appears in plate XXX, fig 31 of the work. |