The Story of Life in 25 Fossils by Donald R. Prothero

Author:Donald R. Prothero
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SCI054000, Science/Paleontology, SCI027000, Science/Life Sciences/Evolution
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

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The skeleton of Kronosaurus queenslandicus is still the centerpiece of the main hall of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Australia, the original Kronosaurus material is on display at the Queensland Museum, South Brisbane. The nearly complete skeleton of Kronosaurus boyacensis is exhibited on the very spot where it was found, and the Museo de Fosil was built over it by the people of nearby Villa de Leyva.

In Europe, fossils of plesiosaurs can be seen in many museums. In England, many of Mary Anning’s discoveries from Lyme Regis are displayed at the Natural History Museum, London; and Lyme Regis Museum. The largest skull of Pliosaurus kevani is at the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester. Many German museums display plesiosaurs (especially from Holzmaden), including the Museum für Naturkunde (Humboldt Museum), Berlin; Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt; and Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart. The only complete Liopleurodon on display is at the Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen.

In the United States, many museums display long-necked elasmosaurs, especially those from the Western Interior Seaway in the Cretaceous of Kansas, including the American Museum of Natural History, New York; Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City; and Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays University, Hays, Kansas. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in Los Angeles, has an elasmosaur from the Cretaceous Moreno Hills of California, called Morenosaurus, suspended from the ceiling, as well as the recently described specimen of a mother plesiosaur skeleton with her embryo inside.

The Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand, displays a plesiosaur found in New Zealand.

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