Author: Grateloup, [J. P. S. de]
Title: Description d'un fragment de machoire fossiler, d'un genre nouveau de reptile (Saurien), de taille gigantesque, voisin de l'Iguanodon, trouvé dans le Grès marin, à Léognan, près Bordeaux (Gironde).
Description: Bordeaux, H. Gazay, 1840. (21.8 x 14.0 cm). Eight pp.; one large, double-sized, folded engraved plate. Contemporary quarter blind cloth over paper-covered boards. Original printed wrappers bound in. = The original description and illustration of Squalodon; a rare contribution to the Tertiary palaeontology of the Bordeaux region. Squalodon is now known to be an extinct whale. Includes a list of accompanying molluscan-fauna. A very good, clean copy.

Keywords: