Stegosaurus Parts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sculpted Stegosaurus skull (left and above) from Dinolab in Salt Lake City, Utah, based on fossil materials collected from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.

Casts of dermal plates (below) and tail spikes (below, left) of the Late Jurassic stegosaurian dinosaur Stegosaurus, black specimens from DINOLab, Salt Lake City, Utah, the lighter spike from the Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Souvenir postcards (below) from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, showing a mounted skeleton of Stegosaurus stenops, and reproducing a painting depicting a group of Stegosaurus individuals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below, various parts of the skeleton of Stegosaurus, including the skull, two dermal plates and two tail spikes (black specimens from DINOLab, Salt Lake City, UT).

Stegosaurus plates

Stegosaurus spikes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stereographs (below) showing views of Stegosaurus:  first, a view taken during the early 20th Century of the Stegosaurus skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History; second, the Smithsonian Institution’s papier mache life-sized, fleshed-out figure as it appeared in the United States Government exhibit at the World’s Fair, St. Louis (Underwood & Underwood, 1904. To see these images in 3D, just “reverse cross” your eyes.

 

Stegosaurus

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postcards (below and below left) from The Field Museum, the first a black and white reproduction of Charles R. Knight’s small preliminary color “cartoon” of Stegosaurus, the other  the finished mural that he painted for the museum during the latter 1920s.

 

 

 

 

 

Postcard (below) showing Stegosaurus and other Mesozoic creatures at the Snow Festival (1982) in Sapporo, Japanese island of Hokkaido.

                                   

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