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Paleoimagestm Archaeopteryx lithographica Late Jurassic Period 150 million years ago Solnhofen Plat- PaleoImagestenkalk, Bavaria, Germany 18-3/4” x 15-1/4” x 1” Item #TM AVE-100 Museum Quality/Research Grade Fossil Replicas Bird Replicas Messelornis cristata Middle Eocene Epoch Archaeopteryx lithographica - Berlin 40 -50 million years ago Pseudocrypturus cercanaxius Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Messel Formation Eocene Epoch, 55 million years ago Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany Darmstadt, Germany Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA 18-3/4” x 15-1/4” x 1” 11-1/2” x 9” x 3/4” 25-1/2” x 16” x 1” Item # AVE-100 Item # AVE-400 Item # AVE-500 Confuciusornis sanctus Confuciusornis sanctus Gallinuloides wyomingensis Early Cretaceous Period Early Cretaceous Period Eocene Epoch, 55 million years 125 million years ago 125 million years ago ago Green River Formation Yixian Formation Yixian Formation Kemmerer, Lincoln County, Liaoning Province, China Liaoning Province, China Wyoming, USA 14-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1” 14” x 11-3/4” x 1” 11-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2” Item # AVE-200 Item # AVE-210 Item # AVE-300 Bird Replicas Archaeopteryx lithographica - Eichstatt specimen Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany 19” x 11-1/4” x 1” Item # AVE-101A 16-3/4” x 12-1/2” x 1” Item # AVE-101B Pterosaur Replicas Pterodactylus antiquus # 1 Rhamphorhynchus muensteri Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany 11-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2” Item # PTE-101 13-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1” Item # PTE-100 Reptile Replicas Ornatocephalus metzleri Middle Eocene Epoch 40-50 million years ago Messel Formation, Germany 12-3/8” x 5-3/8” x 5/8” Item # REP-050 Keichousaurus hui Early Triassic Period Spathian Stage 242 million years ago Huxia Formation Guangxi, Province, China 11-1/8” x 6-1/4” x 5/8” Item # REP-080 9-5/8” x 6-7/8” x 7/8” Item # REP-082 11-1/4” x 7-3/4” x 3/4” Item # REP-081 Mesosaur braziliensis Platecarpus ictericus Permian Period, 285 million years ago Late Cretaceous Period, 80 million years ago Irati Formation, Brazil Niobrara Formation, Kansas, USA 17-1/2” x 11” x 1” Item # REP-105 (unframed) 25-1/2” x 13-1/4” x 2” 20-3/4” x 14” x 1-1/2” Item # REP-100 (framed) Item # REP-200 (framed ) 26” x 14-1/2” x 2” Item # REP-210 (unframed - “Old Yeller”) Baryphracta deponiae Juvenile Diplocynodon Juvenile Diplocynodon - Large Middle Eocene Epoch, Middle Eocene Epoch, Middle Eocene Epoch, 40-50 million years ago 40-50 million years ago 40-50 million years ago Messel Formation, Darmstadt, Germany Messel Formation, Germany Messel Formation, Germany 12-1/4” x 7” x 5/8” Item # REP-705 15 - 1/8” x 7 - 1/4” x 1” Item # REP-700 12” x 17 - 1/2” x 3/4” Item # REP-701 Reptile Replicas Mixosaurus cornalianus Middle Triassic Period, 225 million years ago Monte San Georgio Formation, Switzerland 15-1/2” x 47” x 1” Item # REP-400 Palaeopython - Messel snake Middle Eocene Epoch, Manchurochelys liaoxiensis 40-50 million years ago Early Cretaceous Period, Messel Formation, Germany 130 million years ago 6” x 7-1/2” x 1” Yixian Formation, Liaoning, China Item # REP-900 14” x 10-1/2” x 1” Item # REP-600 Borealosuchus wilsoni - Crocodile snout Eocene, 55-40 million years ago Bridger Formation, Wamsutter, WY Amphibian 11-1/2” x 11” x 5-1/2” Item # REP-710 Replicas on last page. Manchurochelys liaoxiensis Early Cretaceous Period, Stylemys nebrascensis 130 million years ago Oligocene, 35-30 million years ago Yixian Formation, Liaoning, China White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA 20-5/8” x 17-3/4” x 1” 9-3/4” x 7-3/4” x 4-3/4” 3-7/8” x 3-5/8” x 1-5/8” Item # REP-604 Item # REP-610 Item # REP-611 Dinosaur Replicas Bird?/Theropod Track Late Cretaceous Period, 70 million years ago Laramie Formation, Golden, Colorado, USA 18-1/2” x 7” x 2” Item # TRA-201 (impression-left) 18-1/2” x 7” x 2” Item # TRA-200 (natural cast-right) Compsognathus longipes Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany 15” x 11-1/2” x 1” Item # DIN-100 Macroelongatoolithus eggs Theropod Track Tarbosaur/Gigantoraptor Mid to Late Jurassic Period Mid to Late Cretaceous Period 155-150 million years ago 100-70 million years ago Oviraptor philoceratops egg nest Entrada Formation, Utah, USA Central Asia Late Cretaceous Period 11-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2” 16” x 14-1/2” x 4-1/2” 88-70 million years ago Item # TRA-100 Item # DIN-902 Central Asia 18” x 15-1/2” x 4-1/2” Item # DIN-912 Grallator variabilis - Track Lower Jurassic, Hettangian Stage 195 million years ago Languedoc, Roussillon, France 9-1/2” x 8” x 5/8” natural cast (left) Item # TRA-110 9-1/2” x 8” x 5/8” impression (right) Item # TRA-111 Invertebrate Replicas Arthropod Replicas Acadoparadoxides briareus Cambrian Period 530 million years ago Drotops megalomanicus Libellulium longilatum Jbel Wawrmast Formation Middle Devonian Period Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Anti-Atlas Mountains 370 million years ago Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany Mt. Issoumour, Morocco Morocco 10” x 13” x 1-5/8” 12-5/8” x 7-1/4” x 3/4” 11-1/2” x 10-1/4” x 1-1/2” Item # ART-800 Item # ART-160 Item # ART-150 Antrimpos speciosus Late Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago Solnhofen Plattenkalk, Bavaria, Germany 11-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2” Eurypterus remipes Item # ART-600 Upper Silurian Period 420 million years ago Fiddlers Green Formation New York, USA 11-3/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2” Trilobites: Asaphopsis brevica (3 partial), Psilocephalina Item # ART-400 lubrica (3 complete, 1 partial), Yupingia sp. (9 complete) Early Ordovician, 500 million years ago Yincufu Series, Hunan Province, China 22-1/2” x 15” x 1” Item # ART-100 Trilobite composite: Dicranurus monstrosus, Scabriscatellum furciferum (2), Lobopyge sp. (2), Kettneraspis sp., Crotaloceph- alus gibbus, Phacops sp. (2), Spinodontochile spinifera (2) Middle Devonian Period, 310 million years ago Hamar Laghdad Formation, Alnif, Morocco 10” x 9” x 1-1/4” Item # ART-105 Invertebrate Replicas Echinoderm Replicas Crinoid composite: Platycrinites saffordi, Par- ascytalocrinus hamitensis, Actinocrinites gibsoni, Crinoids: Actinocrinites gibsoni (2), Rhadinocrinus dactylus Meniscocrinus magnitubus, Eretmocrinus granu- Macrocrinus mundulus, Halysiocrinus Devonian Period liferus, Cyathocrinites multibranchiatus (starfish- nodosus 395 - 360 million years ago Onychaster flexilis), Agarocrinus americanus Mississippian Age,345 million years ago Bundenbach, Germany Mississippian Age (Osagean), 345 million years ago Edwardsville Formation, Indiana, USA 8” x 4 - 3/4” x 1” Edwardsville Formation, Indiana, USA 5-1/4” x 9” x 2” Item # ECH-100 Item # ECH-115 18-3/4” x 14-1/2” x 1-1/2” Item # ECH-105 Salteraster - new species Middle Ordovician Period 443 million years ago Bobcaygeon Formation, Trenton Group, Ontario, Canada Scyphocrinites elegans 7-3/4” x 8-1/2” x 1” Devonian, 395-360 million years ago Item # ECH-600 Boutchrafin, Morocco 14-3/8” x 11” x 1-1/4” Item # ECH-110 Scyphocrinites elegans Devonian, 395-360 million years ago Boutchrafin, Morocco 25” x 27” x 2-3/8” Item # ECH-111 Archaeocidaris brownwoodensis Pennsylvanian, 300-296 million years ago Brownwood Lake Spillway Loriolaster gracilis Urasterella asperula Brown County, Texas, USA Lower Devonian, 396-390 million years ago 9-1/2” x 10” x 1-3/8” Item # ECH-500 Hunsruck Slate, Schlangenstern, Bundenbach, Germany 7-3/4” x 8-1/2” x 5/8” 7-3/4” x 8-1/2” x 5/8” Item # ECH-610 Item # ECH-620 Invertebrate Replicas Mollusk Replicas Cephalopod composite: Placenticeras Placenticeras meeki intercalare (2), Baculites compressus/ Upper Campian Age cuneatus (6), Hoploscaphites landesi, 75-72 million years ago Jeletzkytes brevis, Rhaeboceras halli (2) Fox Hills Formation, South Dakota, USA Upper Campian Age 21-1/2” x 17” x 4-5/8” 75-72 million years ago Item # MOL-115 Fox Hills Formation, South Dakota, USA 12-1/2” x 11” x 2-3/4” Item # MOL-110 Lytocaeras fimbriatum Early- Mid Jurassic 191 - 171 million years ago Dorset, England 12” x 11-1/2” x 5-1/8” Item # MOL-105 Plagioctenium (Chlamys) Prionocyclus wyomingensis boulogniensis Parkinsonia sp. Late Cretaceous, Turonian Stage Miocene Middle Jurassic Period 94 million years ago 21-12 million years ago 165 million years ago Carlile Shale Lacoste, France Burton Bradstock, England SW South Dakota, USA 17-1/2” x 12” x 4-5/8” 14” x 13-1/2” x 3-1/2” 8” x 7-1/4” x 2-5/8” Item # MOL-500 Item # MOL-100 Item # MOL-120 Mammal Replicas Ailuravus macrurus Middle Eocene Epoch, 49 million years ago Messel Formation, Germany 24-1/8” x 13” x 1-1/4” Item # MAM-100 Darwinius masillae -Ida Middle Eocene Epoch, 47 million years ago Messel Formation, Darmstadt, Germany 22” x 15.5” x 1” Item # MAM-900 Propalaeotherium hassiacum Hessianycteris messelensis Paroodectes feisti Middle Eocene Epoch, Middle Eocene Epoch, 49 million years ago Middle Eocene Epoch, 40-50 million years ago Messel Formation, Germany 40-50 million years ago Messel Formation, Germany Messel Formation, Germany 10” x 24-3/4” x 1-3/8” 5-7/8” x 4-3/8” x 5/8” Item # MAM-700 17” x 15-1/2” x 1-1/8” Item # MAM-200 Item # MAM-300 Mammal Replicas - Skulls Hoplophoneus primaevus Hoplophoneus primaevus Oligocene, 35-30 million years ago Oligocene, 35-30 million years ago White River Formation White River Formation Pennington County, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA South Dakota, USA 8” x 4-1/2” x 4-1/2” Item # SKU-104 6-1/2” x 4” x 4-1/2” Item # SKU-105 Perchoerus sp.
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