The Frustrating Legacy of “Plasterosaurus”
Offered only a “tantalizingly incomplete” look at the marine reptile, he was sure that it was “[a] fragment of a very massive sauropterygian mandible” which “demonstrate[d] the existence in Australia in Cretaceous times of a reptile far larger than any yet put on local record.” The scrap had been known been Heber for some time. The piece had been forwarded to the museum in 1899 by a “Mr. A. Crombie” from Hughenden, Queensland and been mistaken by paleontologist C.W. De Vis as part of the shark-shaped marine reptile Ichthyosaurus . Longman realized that this was a mistake when he carried out his own research on an ichthyosaur skull in 1922, and two years later he concluded that the unique jaw fragment signaled the existence of an imposing variety of marine predators called pliosaurs in the seas of prehistoric Australia.Pliosaurs were a particular group of big-headed and often short-necked plesiosaurs. This might sound a little confusing since – in museum displays and encyclopedias of prehistoric life – the term “plesiosaur” is most often used for round-bodied, long-necked animals such as Elasmosaurus . But both the big-headed and the long-necked forms belonged to the group we call plesiosaurs. Together these two forms they represent two sides of a deep split within the plesiosaurs, with the pliosaurs on one side and the long-necked plesiosauroids on the other. (Such is the trouble with talking about prehistoric life – as family trees are bestowed with new branches and evolutionary patterns become more complex, the big scientific picture is often failed by a restricted popular nomenclature.)
In Longman’s estimation, the partial Kronosaurus parts, including the components of the most famous and controversial specimen of this marine reptile.
Schevill was part of an expansive collecting trip launched by Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Part of the goal was the bring back specimens of Australia’s marsupial mammals, but Schevill also found part of the snout of a relatively small Kronosaurus Schevill’s team collected to become famous, though. The skeleton was so massive, and the number of limestone blocks so numerous, that another quarter century was needed to get this sea monster our on display. Museum of Comparative Zoology scientists Alfred Sherwood Romer and Arnold Lewis outlined the history of the specimen in a 1959 report in the institution’s journal Breviora .
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This might sound a little confusing since – in museum displays and encyclopedias of prehistoric life – the term “plesiosaur” is most often used for round-bodied, long-necked animals such as Elasmosaurus and, of course, Plesiosaurus.
In my quest to seek information on private and institutional collections of Akan Goldweights, in preparation of an article, I was more than pleasantly surprised to discover the one and only tribal art museum in the Balkan.
It was also the first introduction to the chef's eclectic food treatments and styles. Our next course was a simply dressed sunflower sprout salad. It was light and showed off more of the unexpected food techniques that would continue.
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School field trips are expected to be frequent as youngsters will enjoy the dinosaur dig pit, educational exhibits, gift shop and of course the Dinosaurs themselves. The museum will feature life-size skeletons, fossils, videos, and interactive
Museum of London – Finds Processing Course : Fieldwork Opportunities
London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre Training School: Introduction to Finds Processing and Recording.
During this week-long course you will learn the basics of processing finds from archaeological excavations. Guided by nearly a dozen experienced practitioners and specialists from the Archive and Research Centre, you will go through all the various stages from handling and packaging, to sorting and cataloguing. There will be a strong emphasis on practical activities, drawing on one of the world’s largest and most diverse archaeological collections.
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Course Introduction. What kinds of uses, values, and meanings do people attribute to ... This course is a comparative and historical introduction to museums and objects, ...