M0006041: Diagram of the limb of a primitive land animal / M0006041EB: Diagram of a crossopterygian fin / M0006041EC

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Resemblances between a crossopterygian fin...

Three images on one negative: On the left is a photograph of the left front fin of Eusthenopteron foordi from the Upper Devonian at Scaumenac, Quebec. In the middle is a diagram of the fin and on the right is a diagram of the limb of a late Paleozoic amphibian, Eryops. They are published as figure 104 in Schuchert, Charles: Outlines of Historical Geology, third edition, New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1937.

20 January 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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