Atychodracon Skeleton

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Skeleton (cast from Jones Fossil Farm, Worthington, MN) of a juvenile plesiosaur of the genus Atychodracon, collected during the 19th century by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.

Souvenir postcard showing a mounted skeleton of an adult pleasiosaur of the genus Plesiosaurus; and a DinoCardz Co. postcard (1991) reproducing a painting of Plesiosaurus by Dave Marrs and Lynette Cook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of many souvenir postcards (below, left) from the Lyme Regis Fossil Shop Museum, this one showing a fossil ammonite of the species Asteroceras obtusum.

 

Portrait of Mary Anning reproduced in a souvenir postcard from The Natural History Museum, London.

 

 

 

 

Souvenir postcards (below) showing “Life [including Plesiosaurus] in Dorset in Purbeck Times,” from a mural painted by Kenneth Hatts for the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset — located a comfortable driving distance from the site where Ms. Anning recovered her specimen.

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Plesiosaur model (below) from the Milwaukee Public Museum as it appeared in the book The Golden Treasury of Natural History (1941) and reprinted in the booklet Life Through the Ages (1954), both authored by Bertha Morris Parker.

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