Dimetrodon Fossils

 

 

Fossil tooth, vertebra and partial neural spine of the pelycosaur (a kind of “mammal-like reptile”) Dimetrodon grandis.

Dimetrodon parts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Souvenir postcard from The Field Museum showing mounted skeletons of Permian period reptiles, including Dimetrodon grandis (right), photograph by John Weinstein (negative number GEO85820c).

Painting of Dimetrodon by Matthew Kalmenoff (based on a painting by Charles R. Knight done for National Geographic Magazine) for a stamp in Animals of the Past Stamps (A Golden Playbook, Simon and Schuster, 1954.

Dimetrodon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postcards (above right and below left) from The Field Museum showing a skeleton of Dimetrodon gigas (and other pelycosaurs) and reproducing a painting by artist Karen Carr of Dimetrodon grandis.

 

Postcard from Prehistoric Gardens on the Oregon Coast Highway 101, neat Port Orford, showing a full-scale statue of Dimetrodon.

Dimetrodon life restorations (below) by artist Frederick E. Seyfarth, based on a museum diorama with models, as it appeared in the book The Golden Treasury of Natural History (1941) and reprinted in the booklet Animals of Yesterday (1954), both authored by Bertha Morris Parker.  

 

 

 

 

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