Rhinoceros Deccanensis. Fauna of Indian Fluviatile deposits Vol I. 1. Ser. X. 1.
- Published In : Calcutta
- Illustrations : 3 lithographic plates
Description:
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India.
Scarce. An important early contribution to Indian vertebrate palaeontology by Robert Bruce Foote (1834-1912), pioneering geologist and archaeologist. Contains the original description of Rhinoceros deccanensis Foote, 1874, based on fossil remains discovered by the author in 1871 near Gokak, southern India. The remains, including a series of large mammalian teeth, were found embedded in a deposit of black clay, approximately eight feet below the surface. Foote concluded that they represented a previously undescribed species of rhinoceros, which he named Rhinoceros deccanensis, after the Deccan region of India. Illustrated with 3 lithographic plates depicting the fossil material.
Wrapper states 'Only a limited number of copies are printed'.
Condition
4to, later library buckram, gilt title to spine, orig. printed wrappers retained, padded to rear with blank leaves. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few neat ink stamps. Good.
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