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Late or Upper 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. Painting by Charles R. Knight. Includes ankylosaur (with spikes) and anatosaurs
Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs
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  • CSGEO74806
  • GE563
Whales of the Eocene Seas. Restoration of the primitive whale. Basilosaurus [Zeuglodon] Painting by Charles R. Knight on wood shelf with wheels.  This may be a study or alternate view of the painting, there is a tail on the whale in the back. Signed Chas. R. Knight 1925
Whales of the Eocene Seas
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  • CSGEO63228
  • GE570
Stegosaurus Jurassic dinosaur had dorsal plates that might have served as heat regulators and a spiked tail that was most likely used for defense against predators. Charles R. Knight painting or mural
Stegosaurus
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  • CK31T
  • 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
Reptiles That Invaded The Seas; Plesiosaurus and Stenopterygius, fish shaped ichthyosaur. Mesozoic, Jurassic. Charles Knight painting or mural.
Reptiles That Invaded The Seas
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  • CK34T
  • GE564
Oligocene Titanotheres. A team of flesh-eating Hyaenodon hope to bring down a younger member of this herd of dust-raising Brontotherium.  But they had not expected the sudden charge of a protective bull.  Also shown is the tortoise (turtle) Stylemys. Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural, originally installed in 1931. The painting is shown on the floor of Hall 38 Fossil Vertebrates before it was moved to the Life Over Time exhibit.
Oligocene Titanotheres
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  • CK12T
  • GE573
Early Land Plants: Devonian Forest Plants had covered the land by the middle of the Paleozoic era, 320 million years ago. Charles R. Knight painting or mural on the wall in Hall 38, above exhibit case "The History of a Fossil from Death to Discovery".
Early Land Plants
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  • CK49T
  • GE559
Miocene Plains Mammals, Cenozoic; Long-necked camel Oxydactylus, two-horned rhinoceros Menoceras, 3 (three) toed horse Parahippus, giant pig Dinohyus, Mammal with claws, curious Moropus. Charles R. Knight painting or mural.
Miocene Plains Mammals
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  • CK19TA
  • GE572
Giant Ground Sloth, Nearly elephant size Megatherium and two types of armadillo like glyptodons, spiked tailed Doedicurus and Glyptodon. Charles R. Knight painting or mural. preinstallation, the mural is on a panel cart, Hall 38 windows visible in background
Giant Ground Sloth
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  • CSGEO68656
  • GE575
American Mastodons Cenozoic era. Mural painting preinstallation. Signed by Charles R. Knight [Chas. R. Knight '28 [1928]].
American Mastodons
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  • CSGEO59396
  • GE576
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.
Four toed horses
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  • CSGEO75015
  • GE571
Woolly Mammoths Cenozoic era. Painting by Charles R. Knight. Preinstallation, Hall 38 windows visible. Mural.
Mural
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  • CSGEO68655
  • GE577
Irish Deer [Elk], Megaloceros. Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight mural painting, signed Chas. R. Knight 1928.
Irish Deer
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  • CSGEO63060
  • GE580
Small four toed horses of the genus Orohippus and the much larger, but harmless Uintatherium. Study painting [preliminary drawing] by Charles R. Knight.
Small four toed horses
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  • CSGEO66713
  • GE571
Giant Kangaroos and Wombats. (Right) Palorchestes and (left) Diprotodon. Marsupials predominated in isolated Australia through the Cenozoic, as they do today. Late Pleistocene time, 100,000 years ago. Charles R. Knight painting or mural on exhibit. Wood letters above as a title.
Giant Kangaroos and Wombats
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  • CK27T
  • GE581
Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas Mesozoic; Charles R. Knight painting or mural. Marine reptiles monstrous lizard Tylosaurus; giant turtle Protostega, flying reptile Pteranodon.
Upper Cretaceous Seas
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  • CK24T
  • GE565