Six more years of new plesiosaur toys (2018–2023)

Post author:Adam S. Smith
Post published:26/03/2024
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Post category:Announcement Commentary Education & outreach Elasmosaurus Kronosaurus Palaeoart Plesiosaurus Popular culture Toys and models

I need to catch up on several more years of new plesiosaur models. The notable new company on the block is PNSO, the Peking Nature-Science Organisation, although having pushed out an impressively prolific catalogue of prehistoric animal models, to date they have produced only one commercially available plesiosaur figure, a Kronosaurus in…

Kronosaurus

Post author:Adam S. Smith
Post published:22/07/2018
Post category:Genus page Kronosaurus Plesiosauria Pliosauridae Pliosauroidea Thalassophonea

Kronosaurus queenslandicus skeleton in lateral view.

Due to its large size and ferocious appearance, Kronosaurus is one of the most famous plesiosaurs. The iconic skeleton referred to Kronosaurus on display in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Harvard is nicknamed 'plasterosaurus' because so much of it is reconstructed in plaster. About a third of the skeleton is plaster…