Prehistoric Plaques
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Acadoparadoxides Trilobite Replica
$151.00Most redlichiids are rather flat (or have low dorso-ventral convexity) and their exoskeleton typically has an oval outline. Each back edge of the headshield (or cephalon) very often carries a…
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Acrocanthosaurus Skull Plaque
$14.00The skull of Acrocanthosaurus or Acracanthus was long, low and narrow. The weight-reducing opening in front of the eye socket was quite large, more than a quarter of the length…
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Aerosaurus Therapsida Skeleton Plaque
$399.00Aerosaurus Therapsida or Aerosaurus wellesi has been recognized as a basal member of the Synapsida, a clade that ultimately produced mammals. Relative to the skull, the body was much larger…
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Allodesmus Kelloggi Skeleton Panel
$1,950.00Allodesmus is an extinct genus of pinniped from the middle to late Miocene of California and Japan that belongs to the extinct pinniped family Desmatophocidae.
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Anomodontia Skeleton Plaque
$654.00Though the mouth was full of sharp and proportionately large teeth, wear patterns upon the teeth themselves indicate that they were being repeatedly used to process plant material, meaning that…
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Anomodontian Full Skeleton Plaque
$196.00Though the mouth was full of sharp and proportionately large teeth, wear patterns upon the teeth themselves indicate that they were being repeatedly used to process plant material, meaning that…
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Anomodontian Partial Skeleton Plaque
$186.00Though the mouth was full of sharp and proportionately large teeth, wear patterns upon the teeth themselves indicate that they were being repeatedly used to process plant material, meaning that…
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Anurognathus Doderlein Skull Plaque
$11.00Anurognathus ammoni had a short head with pin-like teeth for catching insects and although it traditionally is ascribed to the long-tailed pterosaur group “Rhamphorhynchoidea”, its tail was comparatively short, allowing…
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Archaeopteryx Skull Plaque
$10.00Archaeopteryx lived in the late Jurassic Period around 150 – 145 million years ago. Despite its small size, broad wings, and inferred ability to fly or glide, Archaeopteryx has more…
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Bat Skeleton Plaque
$14.00Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera. With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in…
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California Dinosaur Footprint Plaque
$15.00The Coelurosaurs tracks are estimated to be 170 million years old. They were found in 1950 in the eastern Mojave by James Evans. He identified some of the impressions in…
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Compsoganthus Skull Plaque
$12.00Compsognathus longipes lower jaw was slender and had no mandibular fenestra, a hole in the side of the lower jawbone commonly seen in archosaurs. The teeth were small but sharp,…
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Confuciusornis Skeleton Panel
$79.00Confuciusornis or Jinzhouornis yixianensis tomial crest of the upper jaw was straight for its entire length. The front bones of the upper jaw were fused together for most of the…
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Crinoid Parisangulocrinus Replica
$25.00The calyx is truncated cone-shaped as in Rhadinocrinus. However, the arms are dichotomously forked up to four times. The anal sac is long, slender, and cob-like.
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Crinoid Saccocoma petinata Panel
$16.00Originating in the 150 million year old Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone deposits near Bavaria, Germany, these pelagic (free-floating) comatulid crinoids are known as Saccocoma pectinata.
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Crinoid Sea Floor Replica
$50.00Those crinoids which, in their adult form, are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms are called feather stars or…
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Dragonfly Fossil Plaque
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Edmontosaurus annectens Skull Plaque
$1,839.00The skull of Edmontosaurus annectens or Hadrosaurid duckbill is known for its long, wide muzzle. The skull was longer and lower proportionally than in any other known hadrosaurid. The toothless…
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Eudimorphodon Skull Plaque
$19.00It had a wingspan of about 3.3 ft. and at the end of its long bony tail may have been a diamond-shaped flap like in the later Rhamphorhynchus. They are…
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Gasparinisaurus Skull Plaque
$40.00Gasparinisaura Cincosalternis had a rounded head that was moderately elongated. The eye sockets were very large and placed in a high position. The rather long back of the head was…
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Giganotosaurus Skull Profile Plaque
$23.00Length estimates for the Giganotosaurus carolinii have varied between 39 and 43 ft., with a skull between 5.0 and 5.9 ft. long, a femur (thigh bone) between 4.48 and 4.69…
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Gorgonopsial Skull Plaque
$120.00Gorgonopsia is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to Upper Permian roughly 265 to 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull.
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Ichthyosaur Skeleton Panel
$1,740.00Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for fish lizard) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as “ichthyosaurs,” although the term is also used for wider clades that the…
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Ichthyosaur Skeleton Plaque
$50.00Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for fish lizard) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as “ichthyosaurs,” although the term is also used for wider clades that the…
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Mesosaur Skeleton Plaque
$65.00A characteristic of Mesosaur was the length of the tail and the amount of caudal vertebrae. There were about 60-64 caudal vertebrae, which is very predictable for an aquatic predator…
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Nanosaurus Rex Skull Profile
$20.00Nanosaurus or Nanosaurus agilis is known from material from all parts of the body, including two good skeletons, although the skull is still poorly known. It was a small animal,…
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Nanosaurus Skeleton in Situ
$328.00Like several other neornithischian dinosaurs, such as Hypsilophodon, Thescelosaurus, and Talenkauen, Nanosaurus or Nanosaurus agilis had thin plates lying along the ribs. Called intercostal plates, these structures were cartilaginous in…
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Nyctosaurus Skeleton Panel
$524.00The jaws of Nyctosaurus or Nyctosaurus gracilis were long and extremely pointed. The jaw tips were thin and needle sharp, and are often broken off in fossil specimens, giving the…
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Oreodont Skeleton Situ Plaque
$429.00The Oreodont or Merycoidodon culbertsoni was a diverse group of stocky prehistoric mammals that grazed amid the grasslands, prairies, or savannas of North and Central America throughout much of the…
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Parasaurolophus Dinosaur Skull Plaque
$1,500.00Parasaurolophus was a long-crested, duck-billed dinosaur. Parasaurolophus grew to be about 40 feet (12 m) long and 8 feet (2.8 m) tall at the hips. It weighed about 2 tons….
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Psittacosaurus Dinosaur Skeleton
$365.00The bony core of the Hongshanosaurus beak may have been sheathed in keratin to provide a sharp cutting surface for cropping plant material. As the generic name suggests, the short…
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Pterodactylus Kochi Skeleton Plaque
$54.00Fossil remains of Pterodactylus or Ornithocephalus antiquus have primarily been found in the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany, which dates back to the Late Jurassic period (early Tithonian stage), about…
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Rhamphorhynchus Skull Plaque
$20.00Adult Rhamphorhynchus also developed a strong upward “hook” at the end of the lower jaw. The number of teeth remained constant from juvenile to adult, though the teeth became relatively…
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Ripeosaurian Complete Skeleton Plaque
$197.00Emeroleter levis was a small, carnivorous, and at times insectivorous parareptilian (early extinct reptile) dating from the Middle to Late Permian period.
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Sabertooth Cat Skull Plaque
$36.00Sabertooth Cat or Smilodon fatalis died out at the same time that most North and South American megafauna disappeared, about 10,000 years ago. Its reliance on large animals has been…
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Tropenognathus Pterosaurs Skull Plaque
$150.00The skull of Tropeognathus pterosaur bore distinctive convex “keeled” crests on its snout and underside of the lower jaws, and this was prominent, well-developed, and relatively large in Tropeognathus, specially…
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Skull Plaque
$28.00The largest known Tyrannosaurus rex skull is 5 ft. in length. Large openings in the skull reduced weight. Tyrannosaurus’s skull was significantly different from those of large non-tyrannosaurid theropods. It…
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Velociraptor osmolskae Skeleton Plaque
$1,750.00Velociraptor mongoliensis, like other dromaeosaurids, had a large manus (‘hand’) with three strongly curved claws, which were similar in construction and flexibility to the wing bones of modern birds. The…















































