Cretaceous Collection (page 7)

Saurornitholestes
Model of the fast moving Saurornitholestes manufactured by Kokoro Dreams, Tokyo. In T. rex The Killer Question exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London

Saurornitholestes, Upper Cretaceous dinosaur
Model of the fast moving Saurornitholestes manufactured by Kokoro Dreams, Tokyo. T. rex The Killer Question exhibition at The Natural History Museum, London

Triceratops skeleton on display in the central hall at the Natural History Museum, London. This specimen is now in the Dinosaur Gallery

Isle of Wight amber
Spider in Isle of Wight amber. Lower Cretaceous about 130 million years old. Borrowed from Museum of Isle of Wight Geology

Tyrannosaurus rex, Upper Cretaceous dinosaur
Model of the animatronic scavenger T. rex manufactured by Kokoro Dreams, Tokyo. T. rex The Killer Question exhibition at The Natural History Museum, London

Euoplocephalus skeleton
An Upper Cretaceous ankylosaur, or armoured dinosaur which grew up to 7 metres in length. Complete with thick skin, bony plates and a club like tail used for swiping predators away

Dromaeosaurus albertensis
Skeleton cast of a Dromaeosaurus albertensis on display in the Dinosaur Gallery (number 21) at the Natural History Museum, London. Dromaeosaurus was from the Upper Cretaceous period

Pachycephalosaurus
Outline illustration of a Pachycephalosaurus

Baryonyx skeleton
The Baryonyx which lived during the Lower Cretaceous was a bipedal carnivore which had a set of sharp teeth as well as a 30cm claw on each forehand. Illustration by Jo Konopelko

Iguanodon leg
A model cross section of an Iguanodon leg showing the bones, muscles and foot. The Iguanodon was a mainly a bipedal dinosaur. It required large upper thigh muscles for balance and support

Cyclothyris difformis, brachiopod
Shown here ia a rhynchonellid brachiopod from the Cretaceous of Devon. Brachiopods belong to their own phylum (Brachiopoda). General characteristics include a pair of protective shells

Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs discovered in England
An illustration showing a scene in Lower Cretaceous (145 - 100 million years ago) South East England, featuring the following dinosaurs from the left: Iguanodon, Altispinax

Protoceratops

Hypsilophodon
A model of Hypsilophodon, a Lower Cretaceous period dinosaur, living 125 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in England and Spain, being first described by Huxley in 1869

Lower Chalk

Actinopora disticha, bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph of a fossil cyclostome bryozoan from the Cretaceous Chalk, Santonian, Kent

Meliceritites semiclausa, bryozoan
Branching colony of a fossil cyclostome bryozoan. Specimen originates from the Lower Cretaceous Faringdon Sponge Gravel, Faringdon, Oxfordshire

Belemnitella mucronata, belemnite
71-65 million year old squid-like belemnite specimen from the Late Cretaceous, Mstricht, Holland

Baryonyx walkeri
The Baryonyx walkeri specimen on display at the Natural History Museum London. Discovered in Surrey, UK in 1883 this specimen type dates back 125 million years to the Lower Cretaceous period

Hypsilophodon skeleton
A mounted skeleton of the dinosaur Hypsilophodon, whose name meand high-ridge tooth. This specimen that dates back to 125 million years ago was discovered in England

Wilbertopora woodwardi (Brydone), bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph of a fossil cheilostome bryozoan. Specimen originates from the Upper Cretaceous Chalk, West Mean Station, Hampshire, U.K

Fossil leaf of an early flowering plant
89-65 million year old specimen of an unidentified flowering plant species from the Late Cretaceous, Sachsen, Germany

Platyphysa prinsepi, freshwater snails
65 million year old freshwater snail specimens that were engulfed by lava flows. Originating from the Late Cretaceous, Nagpur, India

Flint nodule
This flint nodule originates from the Cretaceous rocks of the North Downs, England

Beetle in amber

Protoceratops embryo

Paranthodon africanus
A fossil of a section of left maxilla that once belonged to the dinosaur Paranthodon africanus. The specimen dates back to the Lower Cretaceous, discovered in Kirkwood Formation, Dassies Clip

Euoplocephalus cutleri
Detail of a fossil of the armoured plated skin once belonging to Euoplocephalus cutleri, a dinosaur from the Ankylosaur family that lived 76 to 70 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous

Troodon tooth
A fossil tooth specimen that once belonged to the dinosaur, Troodon. It was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived around 65 million years ago

Echinocactus gibbosus, chin cactus
Triceratops teeth worked together like scissor blades to cut up tough plants. The smooth vertical surface on the right of this tooth is the worn cutting blade

Deinonychus
A model of the Deinonychus, meaning terrible claw. It was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Lower Cretaceous period, around 144 million years ago

Mesozoic L scape
Landscape of the Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous) era, showing dinosaurs and erupting volcanoes in the distance

Pterodactyl / Pteranodon
Giant pterodactyl, the PTERANODON, with a wing-spread of some 6 metres from the Cretaceous period

Animals and plants of the post-Jurassic era
Scene and landscape, with animals, during the Cretaceous (post-Jurassic) era in southern England

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