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Small four toed horses of the genus Orohippus and the much larger, but harmless Uintatherium of the Eocene. Charles R. Knight painting or mural, installed 1931.
Orohippus
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  • CK46T
  • GE571
Middle Devonian Forest Paleozoic. Restoration mural painting by Charles R. Knight.
Devonian Forest
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  • CSGEO73898
  • GE559
Woolly Mammoths and Rhinoceros Cenozoic. Early Man saw mammals known to us as fossils. Europe in Late Pleistocene time, 100,000 years ago. Charles Knight painting or mural. Painting.
Mural
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  • CK30T
  • GE577
Cave Bears, Ursus spelaeus, The Great Cave Bear of Europe. Cenozoic era. Painting by Charles R. Knight.
Cave Bears
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  • CSGEO71548
  • GE578
Giant Moas. Dinornis, Great extinct bird. Cenozoic Era. Close up of study sketch or painting on canvas signed by Charles R. Knight [Chas. R. Knight '27 [1927]].
Giant Moas
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  • CSGEO59008
  • GE582
Reptiles That Invaded The Seas; Mesozoic, Jurassic. Plesiosaurus and Stenopterygius, fish shaped ichthyosaur. Charles Knight painting or mural.
Reptiles That Invaded The Seas
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  • CSGEO72379
  • GE564
Stegosaurus Mesozoic. Painting by Charles R. Knight.
Stegosaurus
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  • CSGEO63225
  • GE568
Ordovician Sea Life, two billion years ago, volcanic activity widespread, shows beached seaweed, trilobites and cephalopods from the ocean. Cenozoic; Charles R. Knight painting or mural Fossil invertebrate
Ordovician Sea Life
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  • CK23BT
  • GE557
Stegosaurus stenops, Mesozoic. Mural painting by Charles R. Knight. Restoration of the armored dinosaur, Stegosaurus in Ernest R. Graham Hall (38). Among the great land reptiles of the past was Stegosaurus, an armored lizard. Two rows of alternating bony plates extended along the back and gave place to rows of horny spikes on the tail. Stegosaurus fed upon plants. Full-grown individuals exceeded the modern elephant in bulk.
Stegosaurus stenops
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  • CSGEO59163
  • GE568
Reptiles That Invaded The Seas; Plesiosaurus and Stenopterygius, fish shaped ichthyosaur. Mesozoic, Jurassic. Study painting for mural [preliminary drawing] by Charles R. Knight.
Reptiles That Invaded The Seas
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  • CSGEO66248
  • GE564
Stegosaurus Mesozoic. Study sketch or painting on canvas signed by Charles R. Knight [Chas. R. Knight '28 [1928]].
Stegosaurus
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  • CSGEO59007
  • GE568
Stegosaurus Mesozoic. Copy of study painting by Charles R. Knight 1928 (?).
Stegosaurus
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  • CSGEO59235
  • GE568
Earliest Records of Earth Life found in Proterozoic era deposited sediments one and one half billion years ago. Fossils are believed to be lime secretions of minute single celled plants, similar to some of the algae that live in hot springs today. Pre-cambrian or precambrian; Charles Knight painting or mural installed circa 1928.
Earliest Records of Earth Life
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  • CSGEO63043
  • GE556
Archaeopteryx, Compsognathus and Rhamphorhynchus. Birds appeared in a world still dominated by Reptiles. Germany, Mesozoic Lower Jurassic. Charles Knight painting or mural on wall in Hall 38 Fossil Vertebrates. Wood letters spell out title: Birds Appeared in a World still dominated by reptiles. Germany in late Jurassic time 150 million years ago.
Archaeopteryx, Compsognathus
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  • CK39T
  • GE562
Earliest records of earth life found in Proterozoic era deposited sediments one and one half billion years ago.  Fossils are believed to be lime secretions of minute single celled plants, similar to some of the algae that live in hot springs today. Pre-cambrian or Precambrian; Charles Knight painting or mural installed circa 1928.
Earliest records of earth
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  • CK23AT
  • GE556
Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas Mesozoic; Charles Knight painting or mural. Marine reptiles monstrous lizard Tylosaurus; giant turtle Protostega, flying reptile Pteranodon.
Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas
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  • CK24_1T
  • GE565
Primitive Birds and Flying Reptiles and small dinosaurs. Painting by Charles R. Knight. Including theropod dinosaur Compsognathus longipes, Archaeopteryx lithographica, pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus bucklandi.
Primitive Birds and Flying Reptiles
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  • CSGEO75017
  • GE562
Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs Mesozoic. Helmet-crested Corythosaurus, submerged in water, a herd of long-crested Parasaurolophus, heavily armored Palaeoscincus, based on a specimen of Panoplosaurus, ostrichlike Struthiomimus, and flat-headed hadrosaur Edmontosaurus.  Charles R. Knight, the artist, gives an animated effect to the Parasaurolophus by showing individual heads lowering to feed on submerged water vegetation. Installed 1931.
Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs
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  • CK13_1T
  • GE563
Small four toed horses of the genus Orohippus and the much larger, but harmless Uintatherium of the Eocene. Charles R. Knight painting or mural, installed 1931.
Small four toed horses
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  • CSGEO75820_A
  • GE571
Whales of the Eocene Seas. Restoration of the primitive whale. Basilosaurus [Zeuglodon] Painting by Charles R. Knight 1925.
Painting
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  • CSGEO67151
  • GE570