Archosauriformes Collection (page 4)

Albertosaurus
Detail of a skeletal display of Albertosaurus showing the skull, on display at the Natural History Museum, London. The Albertosaurus lived 76 to 74 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous period

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)

Animated model of Tyrannosaurus rex made by Kokoro, and exhibited in the North Hall in June 1999

Archaeopteryx [Berlin specimen]
Cast of the Archaeopteryx fossil specimen held at the Berlin Natural History Museum. It shows clearly the spread-out wings and long clased fingers

Ichthyosaurus, Rhamphorhynchus, Plesiosaurus, Megalosaurus
Plate 82 Life on Jurassic Shores 165 Million Years Ago an illustration from Britain Before Man by F.W. Dunning et al (1978)

Gastroliths, stomach stones
Swallowed by dinosaurs these stones remained in the stomach where they assisted in grinding the toughest food to a more easily digested paste. Largest is 72mm long

Bothriospondylus madagascariensis
A fossil specimen of a femur fragment, or thigh bone that once belonged to the dinosaur, Bothriospondylus madagascariensis. It was discovered in Madagacar and dates back to the Middle Jurassic

Dinosaur footprints
Trackway evidence. A track from Lark Quarry, Australia showing footprints of some smaller dinosaurs covering one of a big hunter. Specimen block measures 78cm x 90cm

Baryonyx fossil remains
Plan of the crazy paving of blocks containing Baryonyx bones at the brick pit excavation site at Ockley, Surrey, UK. This was excavated in 1983 where a Baryonyx specimen was discovered

Cetiosauriscus stewarti
A fossil front left foot belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Titanopteryx philadelphiae wing bones
From a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the late Cretaceous in Jordan. Upper bones are fragments of the elbow joint. The lower from a finger bone which formed a wing support

Sauropod excavation, 1982

Sketch of Diplodocus presentation
Mr Andrew Carnegie presenting a plaster cast of Diplodocus carnegiei to the Natural History Museum, London in May 1905

Iguanodon arthritic toe
Middle toe of a large Iguanodon with arthritic joint shown by the bony overgrowths (rough ridges) betwen the 3rd & 4th toe bones counting back from the terminal phalanx

Palaeontology laboratory
Preparing a mounted skeleton of Baryonyx, a carnivorous dinosaur from Sussex, England. Laying out casts made of glass reinforced plastic prior to mounting on exhibition panelling

Cetiosauriscus stewarti fossil teeth
Fossil teeth belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Rhamphorynchus longiceps
A fossil Jurassic pterosaur from the Lithographic Stone, Eichstatt, Germany

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

Pelorosaurus teeth
These robust chopping teeth from Pelorosaurus, a sauropod, show where the outer enamel has been worn away by constant chopping at plants. This dinosaur lived 130 to 112 million years ago

Dinosaur egg excavation, 1925
George Olsen showing his find of dinosaur eggs to Roy Chapman Andrews during the 1925 expedition to Mongolia by the American Museum of Natural History

Du cours de l Orenoque
Plate 16 from Atlas Geographique et Physique du Nouveau Continent (1814) by Al. de Humboldt

Ichthyosaurus, Pterodactylus, Plesiosaurus
Frontispiece The Age of Reptiles from Introduction to Geology by Thomas Wright, (1855). These marine and avian reptiles lived in Europe during the early Jurassic period about 200 million years ago

Dinosaur skeletons comparing hip pelvic structure
The pelvis consists of three bones on each side. Top, a Saurischian dinosaur. Middle, an early Ornithischian dinosaur. Bottom, a Later Ornithischian dinosaur

The Central Hall of the Waterhouse Building
The Waterhouse Buiding at the Natural History Museum, London was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Microraptor
Illustration of a Microraptor by Jo Konopelko, Natural History Museum Design Studio

Diplodocus carnegiei, diplodocus
View of the Natural History Museums diplodocus cast in the Central Hall of the museum

Diplodocus skeleton
Weighing around 20 tonnes & reaching up to 26 metres in length Diplodocus is one of the worlds longest dinosaurs to have been discovered. It was first described by Marsh in 1878

Side view of a Baryonyx snout
Baryonyx was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Lower Cretaceous period around 125 million years ago. Photographed by Phil Crabb

Gallimimus
Outline illustration of a Gallimimus

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