Lacertilia Collection

Crystal Palace Dinosaur Models
Models sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, working closely with Joseph Paxton and Richard Owen, were installed in the worlds first dinosaur park which opened at Crystal Palace Park in 1854

Ptychozoon kohli, flying gecko
Hand coloured lithograph from final volume of Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle complcte des Reptiles (1854) by A.M.C. Dumeril, G. Bibron, and A. Dumeril

Sceloporus asper, spiny lizard
Illustration of a spiny lizard from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1897). This illustration is on display in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Crystal Palace Dinosaur Models
Models sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, working closely with Joseph Paxton and Richard Owen, were installed in the worlds first dinosaur park which opened at Crystal Palace Park in 1854

Mosasaur: Platycarpus ictericus
Giant marine reptile. 83-81 million year old specimen from the Late Cretaceous, Kansas, USA

Plate 102 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
Plate 102 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Restorations of secondary period animals
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton
A skeleton of the carnivorous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex at the Natural History Museum. The Tyrannosaurus rex, which grew up to around 12 metres long lived 67 to 65 million years ago during

Lacertilia lizards and chameleons: Cameroon sailfin chameleon, Trioceros montium, chameleon forest dragon, Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus, flying dragon, Draco volans, Texas horned lizard

Delphinus doris, plate 20
Illustration of the skull of Delphinus doris taken from The Lizards of Australia and New Zealand by John Edward Gray (1800-1875)

Lacertilia, lizards
Coloured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904

Smooth-necked iguana design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Brachiosaur neck vertebra
A specimen of a neck vertebra that once belonged to a dinosaur from the Brachiosauridae family. This family of dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous period

Annona glabra, pond apple

Tyrannosaurus rex
A life size model of the head of Tyrannosaurus rex on display in the Natural History Museums Dinosaur gallery. Tyrannosaurus rex lived 67 to 65 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous period

Chamaeleo zeylanicus, Indian chameleon
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; attributed to artist J. Hayes; 1819

Daspletosaurus teeth
Fossil teeth from the Daspletosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur closely related to, but not as big as, the Tyrannosaurus

Ophisaurus sp. glass snake & Chrysanthemum americanum
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Glass Snake

Lizard embryo
Model of a lizard embryo

Amblyrynchus cristatus
Illustration (p.411) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Mamenchisaurus
Living about 150 million years ago the dinosaur Mamenchisaurus was 22 metres long, 4 metres wide and weighed up to 30 tonnes. It is the largest animal ever found in China

Lizard, Sri Lanka
A lizard resting on a fern in Sri Lanka, photographed by Harry Taylor

Amblyrhynchus cristatus, marine iguana design
Drawing 23 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of panels in windows of first floor south front of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Iguana, delundung, racoon and gecko design
Four springers in entrance hall. Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876

Pogona barbata, bearded dragon
Drawing 362 from the Watling Collection titled Jew Lizard, Bid de wang by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Telmatosaurus transylvanicus
Fossil remains of the lower part of the jaw once belonging to the dinosaur, Telmatosaurus transylvanicus, Transylvanian marsh lizard discovered by Baron Franz von Nopsca at Hunedoara, Romania

Chamaeleo jacksonii, Jacksons chameleon
Jacksons chameleon specimen in spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. This image is on display in the link corridor from the Life Galleries to the Darwin Centre

Calotes calotes, agamid lizard
This agamid lizard is very common in gardens of the wet zone in Sri Lanka

Ortocryptis weigmani, lizard
A young lizard. This lizard is widely distributed in the forested parts of the lowlands, Sri Lanka

Magyarosaurus & Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Magyarosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (about 70 mya) of Transylvania. Cetiosaurus an early sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England (170 - 160 mya)

Homoeosaurus maximiliani
A fossil specimen of Homoeosaurus maximiliani, a Sphenodontid lizard which dates back to the Triassic period. This specimen was discovered at the Kimeridgian Lithographic stone, Kelheim, Bavaria

Plate 99 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
Plate 99 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Watling Drawing 194
Caption describing a lizard in New South Wales, Australia

Adriosaurus suessi
Neocomian fossil lizard from the Isle of Lesina, Dalmatia

Ardeosaurus brevipes, a Jurassic lizard
A cast of the type skeleton of Ardeosaurus brevipes a fossil reptile from the Lithographic Limestone, Kimmeridgian, Workerstzell, Bavaria, Germany. Dating back the Upper Jurassic period about 150 mya

Sharovisaurus karatauensis
Fossil lizard from Kara Tau, Kasakhstan, USSR. Cast

Tyrannosaurus rex teeth
Partly grown tooth in centre shows serrated edges which helped cut through mrat fibres. Fully grown tooth on right shows some worn serrations near the tip

From M. G. Perecca to G. A. Boulenger
A letter from M.G. Perecca to G.A. Boulenger featuring an illustration of a chameleon. 27 January 1906. DF 235/18/6/38

Varanus salvator, water monitor
Photograph of a mounted water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator) specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 100 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
Plate 100 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Phyllurus platurus, leaf-tailed gecko

Calotes versicolor, agamid lizard
This agamid lizard is a common species in the lowlands of Sri Lanka, particularly in the drier parts of the island

Salamander illustration

Homonota darwini and Naultinuselegans, two species of lizar

Spirit jars containing small lizards
Specimens collected by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) during his Beagle Voyage, now held by the Natural History Museum, London

Ceratosaurus
Anterior skeleton of the bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, Ceretosaurus, mounted for display at the US National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. This dinosaur lived 150 to 144 million years ago

Oedura marmorata, marbled velvet gecko. Lectotype, catalogue number BMNH XXII 2b

Lophognathus gilberti, gilberts dragon
Designated holotype of Lophognathus gilberti, gilbert?s dragon. Catalogue number BMNH 1946.8.28.69 (XXIII.44ce). M. Spirit specimen. rnPort Essington [collected 1838-1849]

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