The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Fossil Lamellibranches
Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 33 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: Four of the fossil lamellibranchs listed on this page,
almost certainly falling within Thoresby's categories
of ‘Musculitae from Humber, of a whitish Stone’
and/or ‘The Tellenites.’
Burton Constable label: ‘459·34’, ‘459·35’, ‘459.36’ and ‘459.21’