Prehistoric Products - Sets and Kits

CONTENTS of the MUSEUM...in a box©

This set is composed of the widest spectrum of very small fossil specimens available in our collections. Included are several tiny vertibrate skeletons, a few small skulls, a selection of dinosaur teeth and a few other specimens.

Perhaps the most important specimen is the tiny pterodaclyle on a four inch square slab. This little fellow was a full sized adult pterosaur which lived during the mid-jurassic period over 150 million years ago. In those days what we call Germany, was a shallow tropical sea dotted with tropical reefs, atolls and islands. They probably fed on insects or small crustacians along the shore. These tiny pterosaurs were probably the smallest flying vertibrates of all time.

One of the other specimens is also a flyer...a tiny bird from what is now SW Wyoming. It is also on a slab the same size as the small pterosaur above. This bird is only a third as old as the pterosaur, living during the eocene epoch ( 50 million years ago ). He probably had a diet similar to the tiny pterosaur. As you will see, this bird is essentially of modern design with a toothless beak, fused digits with-out claws on the fore-arm/wings, a shortened tail etc.

Another flyer is the tiny bat skeleton on a two by four inch slab of limestone. This speciment is the very first bat ever found, and is the earliest known occurance of bats in the fossil record. As is the case with most small living bats, it most likely ate the same fare...flying insects.

You will find a tiny lizard like reptile on a slab the same size as the one above, which lived during the same period and in the region as the tiny pterodaclyle. He was an early relative to the still living Tuatara of New Zealand. Not actually a lizard, these reptiles belong to a rare order of reptiles called the Rhynchocephalia, the "beak-heads". Their group are ancestral to lizards and snakes, were at one time numerous, but are extinct except for the single living genus in New Zealand ( Sphenodon ).

A tiny amphibian is also included similar to a salamander,a ancestor to modern frogs and toads. It lived during the Pennsylvanian period (300 mil yrs.ago) in a swamp we now call Ohio.

Also from the same early time period you will find a couple of small skulls, one an early amphibian, the other a reptile. Both represent the solid roofed skulls of early stem vertibrates. The term "stems" refers to the tree of life, as seen thru time. A stem reptile would be one so primitive that it is located on the trunk of the world family tree, near the base. It therefor would be a basic, un-differentiated form, from which all others evolved.

We also include a skull (still in matrix) of the famous earlybird Archaeopteryx. These birds lived at the same time and region as the pterosaur and lizard-like reptiles. Only five specimens are known, of those, only three are complete.T his skull is molded from the most perfect-of the three, the famous Berlin specimen, Archaeopteryx. Archaeopteryx is now considered to be one of a specialized side-branch (no pun intended) of the birds. Even though not on the main line of avian evolution, it represents the earliest known bird.

We have added several dinosaur teeth, such as Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, Megalosaurus, Camarasaurus, Edmontosaurus etc. There is a fabulous cast of dinosaur skin and a tiny dinosaur footprint. We have just recently added a shard of dino egg-shell. We toss in a trilobite, ammonite and a beautiful fern frond from an ancient rainforest over 300 million years old !

All this in, a small box.

Ready to exhibit. Perfect for teaching. With labels and data sheets, these replicas are practicly, the same as "the real thing". Using hi-fidelity latex molds of the original world-class museum specimens, and special techniques for coloring & finishing, we make scientificly accurate exact duplicates of these fossils.

The "Everything" Super Musuem Kit

• 3 specimens of Archaeopteryx
• 3 specimens eocine birds
• 4 specimens of Pterodactyles
• 1 specimen of Rhamphorhyuchis
• 1 specimen of Compsognathus( a dinosaur )
• 1 specimen of Allosaurus ( dinosaur 1/2 skull plaque )
• 1 specimen of Corythosaurus ( one sided wall hanging )
• 5 specimens of Permian Reptiles & Amphibians ( small skulls )
• 1 specimen of Crocodile
• 1 specimen of Coelocanth
• 1 specimen of Sharovipteryx
• 1 specimen of Icarosaurus
• 1 specimen of Icaronycteris
• 1 specimen of Homeosaurus
• 1 specimen of Mesosaurus

The Medium Musuem Kit

• The Berlin Archaeopteryx
• 1 specimen of Compsognathus( a tiny complete dinosaur skeleton )
• 3 specimen set of Pterodactyles (3 beautiful skeletons in limestone matrix )
• 1 specimen of Coelocanth Fish
• An 18" Crocodile skeleton
• 1 specimen of Sharovipteryx
• 1 specimen of Mesosaurus
• Coelophysis skull
• Nanosaurus skull
• Raptor Claw
• Dino egg nest (oviraptor)

The Mini MUSEUM...in a box©

• Eichstatt Archaeopteryx
• Small eocine bird
• Tiny Pterodactyle
• Nothosaur skeleton
• Amphibamus( early frog ancestor )
• Icaronycteris( earliest bat )
• Icarosaurus
• Coelocanth ( fish )
• A patch of dinosaur skin
• 6 dinosaur claw set
• 6 dinosaur teeth set
• 6 invertebrates
• 6 plants

The "Bird-Evolutionist Kit"

• 3 Archaeopteryx specimens
• 2 Archaeopteryx skulls expanded 400%
• Compsognathus specimens
• 3 eocine birds
• Fossil Hawk skull
• 3 comparitive specimens (Bat, Pterosaur, Gliding Reptile)
• Raptor claw