Preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving, 1811.

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth, 1833.

Scholars attending a lecture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Coloured lithograph printed by C. Hullmandel after N. Whittock.

Geology: stalatites found in a cave in mountains at Surtshellir, Iceland. Engraving.

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth after M. Sheffield.

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving, 1833.

Geology: sections of the Dorset and Devonshire coastline, showing types of rock. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf after H. Cornish.

Cross-section of a lead mine in Derbyshire, showing miners working towards an animal fossil. Lithograph by T. Webster after a sketch by W. Buckland.

The fossilised remains of a prehistoric animal found in a quarry near Glastonbury, Somerset. Wood engraving.

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

pages 258-274, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

On Platygonus compressus : a new fossil pachyderm / by John L. Le Conte.

pages 586-604 pages, 1 unnumbered double plate : illustrations ; 23 cm

The Mesosauria of South Africa / by H.G. Seeley.

7 pages, 4 unnumbered folded plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals / by Sir Everard Home.

The fauna of the Chazy limestone / by Percy E. Raymond.

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Fossils

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Works from the collections

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

On Platygonus compressus : a new fossil pachyderm / by John L. Le Conte.

The Mesosauria of South Africa / by H.G. Seeley.

Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals / by Sir Everard Home.

The fauna of the Chazy limestone / by Percy E. Raymond.

Fossils

Images from the collections

Images about Fossils

Works from the collections

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

On Platygonus compressus : a new fossil pachyderm / by John L. Le Conte.

The Mesosauria of South Africa / by H.G. Seeley.

Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals / by Sir Everard Home.

The fauna of the Chazy limestone / by Percy E. Raymond.

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