Historia del conocimiento de los Ammonites del Jurásico de España: l. los tiempos de José Torrubia (1754)

Abstract

The first published Jurassic Ammonites from Spain in the Aparato para la Historia Natural Española of José Torrubia (1754) is described here with plates depicting some Ammonite fossils atributed by Torrubia to «cornu ammonis». An evaluarían of the knowledge of Torrubia about the contemporaneus pa/aeontologicalliterature and the controversies about the petrifications is made.