Scrotum humanum

Forfatter/Opretter:

Robert Plot (1640–1696)

Kredit:

• Title page and Plate VIII of: The natural History of Oxford-shire. Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. Oxford 1677, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.23488
• first uploaded version was retrieved from http://www.dinooption.com/img03/megalo.jpg (link is broken, no archived version available)

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beskrivelse:

Cover of Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxford-shire, 1677 (right), and illustration of a fossilized lower extremity of a presumed Megalosaurus femur (left) taken from plate VIII, fig. 4 of that book. The bone was described again by Richard Brookes in 1763 and captioned Scrotum humanum.

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