Publications
Remarks on the geological position of the strata of Tilgate Forest in Sussex', in a letter to Professor Jameson, by Gideon A. Mantell, published 1826 in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (vol. 1, article, pp.262-265)
Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex: containing a general view of the geological relations of the south-eastern part of England; with figures and descriptions of the fossils of Tilgate Forest., by Gideon Mantell, published 1827 (xii + 92 pp., London: Lupton Relfe) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
On the bones of birds discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex., by Gideon Mantell, published 1837 in Transactions of the Geological Society of London (vol. S2-5, issue 1, article, pp.175-177) View Online
Abstract:The remains of birds are so seldom found in a fossil state, that a notice of unquestionable relics of this class of animals, however imperfect, cannot fail to be interesting to the geologist and comparative anatomist. Mr. Lyell has well remarked in his Principles of Geology, that it might readily have been anticipated, that the fossil bones of birds would be of rare occurrence, since the power of flight possessed by these animals, preserves them from many casualties by which quadrupeds are destroyed and imbedded; and that even when birds are drowned, or chance to die on the water, the tubular structure of their bones, and their feathery coverings, would generally occasion them to float on the surface, until their carcases were devoured. We find, accordingly, but very few authenticated examples of fossil birds, certainly none (with the exception of those which it is my present purpose to describe) that can be referred to strata of an earlier period than the gypsum beds of the Paris basin. It is true that the thin fragile bones which occur in the slate of Stonesfield were formerly assigned to birds ?, but all these are now known to belong to Pterodactyles.
Soon after my attention was first directed to the fossils of the Wealden of the south-east of England, I discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, several bones of such extreme tenuity as could have been required only by animals intended for flight, and some of these, from their close resemblance.
Soon after my attention was first directed to the fossils of the Wealden of the south-east of England, I discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, several bones of such extreme tenuity as could have been required only by animals intended for flight, and some of these, from their close resemblance.
On the Pelorosaurus: an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile, whose remains are sssociated with those of the Iguanodon and other Saurians, in the strata of Tilgate Forest, by Gideon Algernon Mantell, published 1844 in Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London (vol. 5, article)
On a recent Find of Worked Flints in Tilgate Forest, by Edgar Willett, M.D., published 1912 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 55, article, pp.123-125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2140] & The Keep [LIB/500273] & S.A.S. library View Online