Die Saurier des Muschelkalkes mit Rücksicht auf die Saurier aus buntem Sandstein und Keuper
An 1847 German palaeontology monograph by Hermann von Meyer, published in Frankfurt by Heinrich Keller, on Triassic reptiles (saurians) from the Muschelkalk, Keuper and bunter sandstone layers of Europe, written for scientists and collectors. Its plates are lithographed drawings of fossil bones, shown in pale grey shading on cream paper, with long shafts, joints and fragments set out in grids. A designer could take their precise, orderly arrangement of organic forms as a model for scientific specimen layouts.
