Ref NoLDGSL/56/1/2
TitleLithograph, 'Fragment of Jaw of Megalosaurus'
Date[1824]
LevelItem
Extent1 print
FormatPhotograph/drawing/painting/print
DescriptionBlack and white lithograph entitled 'Fragment of Jaw of Megalosaurus', by Henry Perry after a drawing by Mary Morland [later Mary Buckland], printed by Charles Hullmandel, [1824]. Printers' proof.
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Administrative HistoryBuckland was the first to describe and name the Jurassic fossil dinosaur Megalosaurus.
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LanguageEnglish
Publication NotePaper, which the print illustrates, read before the Society, 20 February 1824 and published as: "Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield", 'Transactions of the Geological Society of London' (2nd series) vol 1 (1824) pp390-396. Similar to plate XL.
ArchNoteDescription by Caroline Lam
CreatorNameBUCKLAND | Mary | née Morland | 1797-1857 | scientific illustrator and wife of William Buckland
SubjectDiapsida
Jurassic
Middle Jurassic
TermDinosaurs
Fossils
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/11BUCKLAND; William (1784-1856); geologist and dean of Westminster1784-1856
DS/UK/177BUCKLAND; Mary (1797-1857); née Morland; scientific illustrator and wife of William Buckland1797-1857
DS/UK/2239PERRY; Henry (fl 1822-1824); artistfl 1822-1824
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CodePlaceName
NA9Oxfordshire
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