Molluskite (fossilised molluscs)

Fossils from Mr W H Bensted's quarry near Maidstone, Kent, showing molluskite - the carbonized remains of the soft parts of molluscs - in Kentish rag. by (George Scharf). It was designed to accompany a paper by Gideon Mantell read before the Society on 1st February 1843, which was published as Notice on the fossilised remains of the soft parts of Mollusca, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, vol. 4 (1843), pp. 35-36. The painting was not published. Watercolour

1842 1843 Accompany Fossils Fossilss Geological Gideon Kentish Maidstone Mantell Mollusca Molluscs Notice Palaeontology Proceedings Quarry Scharf Soft

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