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Plateosaurus
This figure is of intermediate-stiffness vinyl and a fairly glossy finish. Assuming he's meant to be a Plateosaurus engelhardti - which reached lengths of about 9 meters (29 feet) - the figure is dead-on scale-wise, at a stretched-out length of 8.5 to 9 inches (21.6 to 22.9 cm).
The prosauropods are generally assumed to be ancestral to the sauropods, those giant herbivores we all know so well. They are found in Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic strata of all the continents except Antarctica. Perhaps the most common genus is Plateosaurus (Marsh 1895), and the most common species is P. engelhardti (Meyer 1837), which now includes a bunch of specimens formerly assigned to the genera Plateosaurus, Dimodosaurus, Dinosaurus, Gresslyosaurus, Pachysaurus, and Zanclodon. P. engelhardti is known from more than 100 specimens (not all complete) found in Germany and France.
Sometimes the prosauropods are reconstructed as bipedal, and sometimes as quadrupedal, and sometimes as either. All the Plateosaurus rubber dinos are bipedal. Compare Louis Marx, MPC, and American Museum/Playvisions incarnations.
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PLATEOSAURUS
©1994 THE CARNEGIE
SAFARI LTD
MADE IN CHINA CE
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Saltasaurus
Like all the later Carnegie figures, this one is made of softer vinyl and has the duller finish. At 11.5 inches (29 cm) it is exactly to scale (1:40) for a 12-meter (39 foot) animal.
Saltasaurus was a native of the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. The big excitement caused by S. loricatus (Bonaparte et Powell 1980) was that it was the first sauropod fossil clearly associated with dermal armor. However, only eight plates of about 4" size were found, along with hundreds of much smaller pieces, and where they all were attached is a matter for conjecture. The Carnegie figure has the larger plates distributed evenly across the animal's back.
There are several Saltasaurus species, all known only from partial skeletal and skull remains, and all from Argentina -
• S. loricatus
• S. australis (Lydekker 1893) [originally Titanosaurus australis (Lydekker 1893), and including T. nanus (Lydekker 1893), Microcoelus patagonicus (Lydekker 1893), and possibly Loricosaurus scutatus (Huene 1929)]
• S. robustus (Huene 1929) [originally Titanosaurus robustus (Huene 1929)].
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©1996 THE CARNEGIE
Safari Ltd.Miami FL
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Camarasaurus
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