| Date Note | Activity of artist in Britain, date of other drawings of this collection by artist |
| Administrative History | The front part of the specimen was found by Mary Anning in or around December 1829. In October 1834, by which time it had made its way to the Bristol Institution, it was brought to the attention of the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz who was immersed in the research for his ‘Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles’. The tail, which was found separately, was in the collection of Elizabeth Philpot collection now at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. |