Collections & Collectors: 21. Queen's College Museum, Galway.
1979; Volume: 2; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.55468/gc1102
ISSN0144-5294
Autores Tópico(s)Irish and British Studies
ResumoD. Mollusca ('Fossil Shells') (806 entries).Most of the specimens in this section form part of King's collection of Permian fossils described in his 1850 monograph, and mentioned below.The remainder of the material includes 99 brachiopods, 145 cephalopoda, 172 bivalves and 61 gastropods and a specimen of Calceola.These come from as far afield as Gotland and Bavaria (Silurian),Eifel and New York (Devonian).Additional material was added to this section at a later date and catalogued in a distinctive hand (? Anderson); this includes 92 specimens from the Middle Eocene of Barton, Hants., and 143 specimens from the Eocene and Oligocene of the Paris Basin and the Miocene of Touraine.These particular specimens were supplied by Gregory Bottley and Co. probably around the turn of the century.E. Fossil Crustaceans (95 specimens).Trilobites are the dominant element of this category, but a few eurypterids, ostracods and crabs are also present.F. Fossil Insects (no entries).Only one specimen is present in the collection, a dragonfly, for which there are no recorded details.G. Fossil Fishes (100 specimens).Much of the material is very well pre served; it ranges in age from Devonian to Pleistocene.(See Plate 2) H. Reptilian remains (35 specimens).(See Plates 3 & 4) I. Remains of Birds (2 specimens).J. Mammalian remains (109 specimens).62 of the catalogued specimens came from the Sivalik Hills (India) and include Elephas, Mastodon, Enhydriodon and ^^sus among others.An interesting entry in the collection (which included the remains of man and his activities") is for 3 flint instruments presented by Sir Charles Lyell.
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