Iguanodon Waterhouse Hawkins Replica

Description

Iguanodon Waterhouse Hawkins replica model is museum quality-polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (8 February 1807 – 27 January 1894) was an English sculptor and natural history artist renowned for his work on the life-size models of dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park in south London.

The Iguanodon Waterhouse Hawkins model is accurately made using the latest scientific knowledge, created a sensation at the time.

Iguanodon was a large herbivorous dinosaurs found as fossils from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods (161.2 million to 99.6 million years ago) in a wide area of Europe, North Africa, North America, Australia, and Asia; a few have been found from Late Cretaceous deposits of Europe and southern Africa.

Iguanodon was an early Cretaceous dinosaur. A massive herbivore with a horny beak and cheek teeth for grinding vegetation. Its hands had distinctive hoofed fingers and spiked thumbs.

Iguanodon were bulky herbivores that could shift from bipedality to quadrupedality. The only well-supported species, I. bernissartensis, is estimated to have weighed about 3.4 tons on average, and measured about 33 feet long as an adult, with some specimens possibly as long as 43 feet.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Clade: Dinosauria
• Order: †Ornithischia
• Suborder: †Ornithopoda
• Family: †Iguanodontidae
• Genus: †Iguanodon
• Type species: †Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger in Beneden, 1881
• Conservation status: Extinct