Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Fossil Insects
Primary Maker
Date
1930
Physical Description
28x34cm print; 40x50cm mount card
Level of Current Record
Parent
Media
Technique
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Cawthron Institute, Nelson. Transferred from Entomology collection, Auckland Museum, November 2012
Content
1. Fossil wing of an insect ancestral to the modern cicada Mesogereon Superbum Tillyard. From the upper Trias of Ipswich Queensland. This wing is about 2 inches in length
2.Portion of a wing of Mesogereon superbum. (X21) [Duplicate copy damaged]
3. Wing of Mesogereon superbum. X7. (An ancestor of the Cicada) from Upper Trias., Ipswich, Queensland
4.Dunbaria fasciipennis. Till. (X6) A giant insect from the Lower Permian Kansas. [Accepted and hung at the exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain 1930]
5.Eggs of the Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae) on leaf of Ragwort. [Accepted and hung at the exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain 1930]
6.Dunbaria fasciipennis. Till. (X6) A giant insect from the Lower Permian Kansas. [Accepted and hung at the exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain 1930] [water and mould damage]
7.Dunbaria fasciipennis. Till. (X6) A giant insect from the Lower Permian Kansas.
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Last Update
23 Jun 2023
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