Carnegie collection
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The Carnegie Collection is a series of authentic replicas based on dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s and other extinct prehistoric creatures, using fossils featured at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, was founded by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896...

 as references. The line is produced by Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

-based company Safari Ltd.
Safari Ltd.
Safari Ltd is an American manufacturer of educational animal, dinosaur and human replicas. The company is headquartered in Miami Gardens, Florida USA. Though they sell worldwide, their principle market is the United States where they sell mainly to museums, aquariums, zoos, arts and crafts stores,...

, known for their hand-painted replicas.

Statistics

The collection was first released in 1989, seventeen models. The line has seen a steady stream of additions since that time, usually two or three each year. As of 2009, 70 models representing 49 species of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have been produced for the line, although several of these have been retired during the course of its run. Each of the models is hand-painted, ensuring that no two copies of the same model are identical. Each animal featured is authenticated by paleontologists employed by the scientific data available (although models are occasionally outdated by newer findings, see below). Most of the animals are designed at a 1:40 scale (where one inch on the model represents 40 inches on the real creature), although some models representing smaller creatures are built at a larger scale. Models in the collection range greatly in size from 24 inches long (original Diplodocus) to only three inches long (original Dimetrodon) with all shapes and sizes represented in-between. On the underside of each model is information detailing its name, year of initial production, and copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...

 information.

The models feature an informational hang tag providing scientific details about the animal represented by the replica. In some cases, the dinosaurs were packaged in cardboard display boxes, in which case a small booklet featuring information on each dinosaur featured in the collection was included in lieu of the hang tags. In some instances, two or three models would be packaged together in a box. Examples include Dimetrodon and Deinonychus, Protoceratops and Euoplocephalus, Apatosaurus and Apatosaurus Baby, Elasmosaurus and Mosasaurus, and Australopithecus Male/Female pair and Smilodon. The boxes are not often seen today, and most of the time the dinosaurs are found free of packaging. Also produced for the collection was a specially-designed display "mountain". The display featured multiple tiers upon which the pieces in the collection could be placed in a variety of creative ways. This display was touted primarily to retailers in order to encourage sales of the replicas, but the display has also become popular with collectors. A second display set was made in gray plastic that featured a volcano, but this design was short-lived.

Models

Prior to 1996, each model was cast from a grey material and covered in a coat of paint corresponding to the base color of the finished model. The details of the model were then painted onto this layer of paint, resulting in a loss of the finer sculpting detail due to the thickness of the paint on each finished model. Beginning in 1996, each model was cast from a pigmented material corresponding to the base color of the finished model. The details of the model were then painted directly onto this material, resulting in greater detail and a less shiny appearance.

To coincide with this change in production, eight models were retired between 1996 and 1997, and the sculpts of the remaining eighteen models were updated. Despite the modifications, the eighteen remaining models retained the same model numbers as their predecessors. This became the cause of some confusion as a single model number was used to refer to two versions of the same model, which was particularly noticeable with the new color schemes for Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...

, Triceratops
Triceratops
Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...

, and Pachycephalosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was an herbivorous or omnivorous creature which is only known from a single skull and a few...

. Colorful name tags were also designed and attached to each model in place of the original folded paper name tags.

In 2007, twelve more models received new color schemes. These models, however, did not retain the same model numbers as their predecessors. New model numbers were assigned to distinguish them as new versions.

1989
  • #400-01 Stegosaurus
    Stegosaurus
    Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4000-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #401-01 Tyrannosaurus rex
    Tyrannosaurus
    Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4001-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #402-01 Brachiosaurus
    Brachiosaurus
    Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon of western Colorado, in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax,...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4002-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #403-01 Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus , also known by the popular but scientifically deprecated synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period . It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed, with an average length of and a...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4003-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #404-01 Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus , also known by the popular but scientifically deprecated synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period . It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed, with an average length of and a...

    baby (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4004-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #405-01 Parasaurolophus
    Parasaurolophus
    Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4005-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #406-01 Triceratops
    Triceratops
    Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4006-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #407-01 Allosaurus
    Allosaurus
    Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period . The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek /allos and /sauros...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4007-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #408-01 Australopithecus
    Australopithecus
    Australopithecus is a genus of hominids that is now extinct. From the evidence gathered by palaeontologists and archaeologists, it appears that the Australopithecus genus evolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago before spreading throughout the continent and eventually becoming extinct...

    male (1:10 scale, retired in 1996)
  • #409-01 Australopithecus
    Australopithecus
    Australopithecus is a genus of hominids that is now extinct. From the evidence gathered by palaeontologists and archaeologists, it appears that the Australopithecus genus evolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago before spreading throughout the continent and eventually becoming extinct...

    female (1:10 scale, retired in 1996)
  • #410-01 Diplodocus
    Diplodocus
    Diplodocus , or )is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston. The generic name, coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, is a Neo-Latin term derived from Greek "double" and "beam", in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4010-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #411-01 Maiasaura
    Maiasaura
    Maiasaura is a large duck-billed dinosaur genus that lived in the area currently covered by the state of Montana in the Upper Cretaceous Period , about 74 million years ago....

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1996)
  • #412-01 Euoplocephalus
    Euoplocephalus
    Euoplocephalus was one of the largest genera of ankylosaurian dinosaurs, at about the size of a small elephant. It is also the ankylosaurian with the best fossil record, so its extensive spiked armor, low-slung body and great club-like tail are well documented.-Description:Among the...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1997)
  • #413-01 Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian period, living between 280–265 million years ago ....

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1997)
  • #414-01 Pteranodon
    Pteranodon
    Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4014-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #415-01 Protoceratops
    Protoceratops
    Protoceratops is a genus of sheep-sized herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur, from the Upper Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a member of the Protoceratopsidae, a group of early horned dinosaurs...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1996)
  • #416-01 Smilodon
    Smilodon
    Smilodon , often called a saber-toothed cat or saber-toothed tiger, is an extinct genus of machairodonts. This saber-toothed cat was endemic to North America and South America, living from near the beginning through the very end of the Pleistocene epoch .-Etymology:The nickname "saber-tooth" refers...

    (1:10 scale, retired in 1997)


1990
  • #417-01 Deinonychus
    Deinonychus
    Deinonychus was a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur. There is one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus. This 3.4 meter long dinosaur lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115–108 million years ago . Fossils have been recovered from the U.S...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1997)
  • #418-01 Pachycephalosaurus
    Pachycephalosaurus
    Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was an herbivorous or omnivorous creature which is only known from a single skull and a few...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4018-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)


1991
  • #419-01 Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus + σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the Late Cretaceous period , 80.5 million years ago.-Description:...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4019-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #420-01 Mosasaurus
    Mosasaurus
    Mosasaurus is a genus of mosasaur, carnivorous, aquatic lizards, somewhat resembling flippered crocodiles, with elongated heavy jaws. The genus existed during the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period , around 70-65 millions years ago in the area of modern Western Europe and North America...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4020-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)

1992
  • #421-01 Iguanodon
    Iguanodon
    Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4021-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)
  • #422-01 Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4022-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)


1993
  • #423-01 Corythosaurus
    Corythosaurus
    Corythosaurus is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 77-76.5 million years ago. It lived in what is now North America...

    (1:40 scale, renumbered to #4023-01 in 1994, retired in 1996)


1994
  • #424-01 Dilophosaurus
    Dilophosaurus
    Dilophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic Period, about 193 million years ago. The first specimens were described in 1954, but it was not until over a decade later that the genus received its current name...

    pair (1:40 scale, retired in 1996)


1995
  • #425-01 Plateosaurus
    Plateosaurus
    Plateosaurus is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod"...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1996)


1996
  • #4000-01: Stegosaurus
    Stegosaurus
    Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #400-01.
  • #4001-01: Tyrannosaurus
    Tyrannosaurus
    Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4001-01.
  • #4002-01: Brachiosaurus
    Brachiosaurus
    Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon of western Colorado, in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax,...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #402-01.
  • #4003-01: Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus , also known by the popular but scientifically deprecated synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period . It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed, with an average length of and a...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4003-01.
  • #4004-01: Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus
    Apatosaurus , also known by the popular but scientifically deprecated synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period . It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed, with an average length of and a...

    baby (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4004-01.
  • #4005-01: Parasaurolophus
    Parasaurolophus
    Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #405-01.
  • #4006-01: Triceratops
    Triceratops
    Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt and repaint of #406-01.
  • #4007-01: Allosaurus
    Allosaurus
    Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period . The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek /allos and /sauros...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #407-01.
  • #4010-01: Diplodocus
    Diplodocus
    Diplodocus , or )is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston. The generic name, coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, is a Neo-Latin term derived from Greek "double" and "beam", in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #410-01.
  • #4014-01: Pteranodon
    Pteranodon
    Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #414-01.
  • #4018-01: Pachycephalosaurus
    Pachycephalosaurus
    Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was an herbivorous or omnivorous creature which is only known from a single skull and a few...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2002) - Updated sculpt and repaint of #417-01.
  • #4019-01: Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus + σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the Late Cretaceous period , 80.5 million years ago.-Description:...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #419-01.
  • #4020-01: Mosasaurus
    Mosasaurus
    Mosasaurus is a genus of mosasaur, carnivorous, aquatic lizards, somewhat resembling flippered crocodiles, with elongated heavy jaws. The genus existed during the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period , around 70-65 millions years ago in the area of modern Western Europe and North America...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 1999) - Updated sculpt of #420-01.
  • #4021-01: Iguanodon
    Iguanodon
    Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #421-01.
  • #4022-01: Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007) - Updated sculpt of #422-01.
  • #4023-01: Corythosaurus
    Corythosaurus
    Corythosaurus is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 77-76.5 million years ago. It lived in what is now North America...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2009) - Updated sculpt of #423-01.
  • #4024-01: Dilophosaurus
    Dilophosaurus
    Dilophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic Period, about 193 million years ago. The first specimens were described in 1954, but it was not until over a decade later that the genus received its current name...

    pair (1:40 scale, retired in 2009) - Updated sculpt of #424-01.
  • #4025-01: Plateosaurus
    Plateosaurus
    Plateosaurus is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod"...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #425-01.
  • #4026-01: Deinosuchus
    Deinosuchus
    Deinosuchus is an extinct genus related to the alligator that lived 73 to 80 Ma , during the late Cretaceous period. The name translates as "terrible crocodile" and is derived from the Greek deinos , "terrible", and soukhos , "crocodile"...

    (1:40 scale, active)
  • #4027-01: Maiasaura
    Maiasaura
    Maiasaura is a large duck-billed dinosaur genus that lived in the area currently covered by the state of Montana in the Upper Cretaceous Period , about 74 million years ago....

    and nest (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #411-01.


1997
  • #4028-01: Carnotaurus
    Carnotaurus
    Carnotaurus was a large predatory dinosaur. Only one species, Carnotaurus sastrei has been described so far.Carnotaurus lived in Patagonia, Argentina during the Campanian or Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007)
  • #4029-01: Kronosaurus
    Kronosaurus
    Kronosaurus is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur. It was among the largest pliosaurs, and is named after the leader of the Greek Titans, Cronus.-Discovery and species:Kronosaurus lived in the Early Cretaceous Period ....

    (1:40 scale, active)
  • #4030-01: Saltasaurus
    Saltasaurus
    Saltasaurus is a genus of titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period. Relatively small among sauropods, though still massive by the standards of modern creatures, Saltasaurus was characterized by a diplodocid-like head...

    (1:40 scale, active)


1998
  • #4031-01: Quetzalcoatlus
    Quetzalcoatlus
    Quetzalcoatlus was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America , and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2007)
  • #4032-01: Deltadromeus
    Deltadromeus
    Deltadromeus is a genus of large basal ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur from Northern Africa. It had long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size, suggesting that it was a swift runner. The skull is not known. Two fossil specimens of a single species Deltadromeus (meaning "delta runner") is a...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2009) - Sometimes referred to as Deltadromeus agilis.
  • #4033-01: Baryonyx
    Baryonyx
    Baryonyx is a genus of carnivorous saurischian dinosaur first discovered in clay pits just south of Dorking, England, and later reported from fossils found in northern Spain and Portugal. It is known to contain only one species, Baryonyx walkeri...

    (1:40 scale, active)


1999
  • #4034-01: Psittacosaurus
    Psittacosaurus
    Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus...

    (1:10 scale, retired in 2004)
  • #4035-01: 10th Anniversary Commemorative Tyrannosaurus
    Tyrannosaurus
    Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4001-01.


2000
  • #4036-01: Triceratops
    Triceratops
    Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4006-01.
  • #4037-01: Tanystropheus
    Tanystropheus
    Tanystropheus , was a 6 metre long reptile that dated from the Middle Triassic period. It is recognisable by its extremely elongated neck, which measured 3 metres long - longer than its body and tail combined. Despite this length, it had only ten neck vertebrae, each quite long...

    (1:10 scale, retired in 2007)


2001
  • #4038-01: Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian period, living between 280–265 million years ago ....

    (1:15 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #413-01.
  • #4039-01: Acrocanthosaurus
    Acrocanthosaurus
    Acrocanthosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Like most dinosaur genera, Acrocanthosaurus contains only a single species, A. atokensis. Its fossil remains are found mainly in the U.S...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2010)


2002
  • #4040-01: Styracosaurus
    Styracosaurus
    Styracosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period , about 76.5 to 75.0 million years ago...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2005)
  • #4041-01: Camarasaurus
    Camarasaurus
    Camarasaurus meaning 'chambered lizard', referring to the hollow chambers in its vertebrae was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was the most common of the giant sauropods to be found in North America...

    (1:40 scale, active)


2003
  • #4042-01: Woolly Mammoth
    Woolly mammoth
    The woolly mammoth , also called the tundra mammoth, is a species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia...

     (1:24 scale, active)
  • #4043-01: Velociraptor
    Velociraptor
    Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils...

    (1:10 scale, retired in 2007)


2004
  • #4044-01: Albertosaurus
    Albertosaurus
    Albertosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ago. The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which...

    (1:40 scale, active)
  • #4045-01: Sinraptor
    Sinraptor
    Sinraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. The name Sinraptor comes from the Latin prefix "Sino", meaning Chinese, and "Raptor" meaning thief. The specific name dongi honours Dong Zhiming...

    (1:40 scale, retired in 2009)


2005
  • #4046-01: Oviraptor
    Oviraptor
    Oviraptor is a genus of small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by the paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1924...

    (1:10 scale, retired in 2009)
  • #4047-01: Ankylosaurus
    Ankylosaurus
    Ankylosaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur, containing one species, A. magniventris...

    (1:40 scale, active)


2006
  • #4049-01: Beipiaosaurus
    Beipiaosaurus
    Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.The exact classification of therizinosaurs had in the past been hotly debated, since their prosauropod-like teeth and body structure indicate that they were generally herbivorous, unlike typical...

    (1:10 scale, active)
  • #4050-01: Microraptor
    Microraptor
    Microraptor is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China...

    (1:4 scale, active)
  • #4212-01: Caudipteryx
    Caudipteryx
    Caudipteryx is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous Period . They were feathered and remarkably birdlike in their overall appearance....

    (1:4 scale, active)
  • #4213-01: Dilong
    Dilong (dinosaur)
    Dilong is a genus of small tyrannosauroid dinosaur. The only species is Dilong paradoxus. It is from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation near Lujiatun, Beipiao, in the western Liaoning province of China. It lived about 130 million years ago...

    (1:10 scale, retired in 2011)


2007
  • #4052-01: Amargasaurus
    Amargasaurus
    Amargasaurus is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It was small for a sauropod, reaching 10 meters length. It would have been a quadrupedal herbivore with a long, low skull on the end of a long neck, much like its relative...

    (1:40 scale, active)
  • #4053-01: Oviraptor
    Oviraptor
    Oviraptor is a genus of small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by the paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1924...

    (1:10 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4046-01
  • #4101-01: Tanystropheus
    Tanystropheus
    Tanystropheus , was a 6 metre long reptile that dated from the Middle Triassic period. It is recognisable by its extremely elongated neck, which measured 3 metres long - longer than its body and tail combined. Despite this length, it had only ten neck vertebrae, each quite long...

    (1:10 scale, active) - Repaint of #4037-01.
  • #4106-01: Velociraptor
    Velociraptor
    Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils...

    (1:10 scale, active) - Repaint of #4043-01.
  • #4108-01: Iguanodon
    Iguanodon
    Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4021-01.
  • #4109-01: Allosaurus
    Allosaurus
    Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period . The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek /allos and /sauros...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4007-01.
  • #4110-01: Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4022-01.
  • #4111-01: Parasaurolophus
    Parasaurolophus
    Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4005-01.
  • #4115-01: Triceratops
    Triceratops
    Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4006-01.
  • #4116-01: Quetzalcoatlus
    Quetzalcoatlus
    Quetzalcoatlus was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America , and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4031-01.
  • #4117-01: Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus
    Elasmosaurus + σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the Late Cretaceous period , 80.5 million years ago.-Description:...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4019-01.
  • #4118-01: Carnotaurus
    Carnotaurus
    Carnotaurus was a large predatory dinosaur. Only one species, Carnotaurus sastrei has been described so far.Carnotaurus lived in Patagonia, Argentina during the Campanian or Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4028-01.
  • #4119-01: Stegosaurus
    Stegosaurus
    Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4000-01.
  • #4120-01: Brachiosaurus
    Brachiosaurus
    Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon of western Colorado, in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax,...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Repaint of #4002-01.


2008
  • #4054-01: Diplodocus
    Diplodocus
    Diplodocus , or )is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston. The generic name, coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, is a Neo-Latin term derived from Greek "double" and "beam", in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4010-01.
  • #4122-01: Giganotosaurus
    Giganotosaurus
    Giganotosaurus is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived around 97 million years ago during the early Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period. It included some of the largest known terrestrial carnivores, slightly larger than the largest Tyrannosaurus, but smaller than the...

    (1:40 scale, active)


2009
  • #4215-01: Tylosaurus
    Tylosaurus
    Tylosaurus was a mosasaur, a large, predatory marine lizard closely related to modern monitor lizards and to snakes.-Paleobiology:...

    (1:40 scale, active)
  • #4216-01: Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...

    (1:40 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4110-01.


2010
  • #4217-01: Ichthyosaurus
    Ichthyosaurus
    Ichthyosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur from the Early Jurassic of Europe . It is among the best known ichthyosaur genera, with the Order Ichthyosauria being named after it...

    (1:10 scale, active)
  • #4218-01: Cryolophosaurus
    Cryolophosaurus
    Cryolophosaurus was a large theropod dinosaur, with a crest on its head that looked like a Spanish comb. Due to the resemblance of this feature to Elvis Presley's pompadour haircut from the 1950s, this dinosaur was at one point informally known as "Elvisaurus".Cryolophosaurus was excavated from...

    (1:25 scale, active )


2011
  • #4126-01: Miragaia
    Miragaia (dinosaur)
    Miragaia is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in Upper Jurassic rocks in Portugal...

    (1:30 scale, active)
  • #4123-01: Carnotaurus
    Carnotaurus
    Carnotaurus was a large predatory dinosaur. Only one species, Carnotaurus sastrei has been described so far.Carnotaurus lived in Patagonia, Argentina during the Campanian or Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous...

    (1:30 scale, active) - Updated sculpt of #4118-01.


2012
    1. Brachiosaurus
      Brachiosaurus
      Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon of western Colorado, in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax,...

      - Updated sculpt of #4120-01

See also

  • Dinosaur
    Dinosaur
    Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

  • Collectible
    Collectible
    A collectable or collectible is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector . There are numerous types of collectables and terms to denote those types. An antique is a collectable that is old...

     and Collecting
    Collecting
    The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. Some collectors are generalists, accumulating merchandise, or stamps from all countries of the world...

  • Figurine
    Figurine
    A figurine is a statuette that represents a human, deity or animal. Figurines may be realistic or iconic, depending on the skill and intention of the creator. The earliest were made of stone or clay...

  • Scale model
    Scale model
    A scale model is a physical model, a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object, which seeks to maintain the relative proportions of the physical size of the original object. Very often the scale model is used as a guide to making the object in...

  • Educational toy

External links

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