Photo Archives - Charles Knight Paintings Gallery
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Protoceratops, Mesozoic era. Primitive ceratopsian dinosaur with eggs, found in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, 1922. ID# CK10T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Ground Sloths and Glyptodonts. Megatherium and Glyptodon. Middle Pleistocene period, Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural. ID# CK20T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Mammal-like reptiles. Carnivorous Cynognathus prepare to attack the virtually defenseless Kannemeyeria. Triassic period, Mesozoic era. ID# CK22T
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Earliest records of earth life. 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. Precambrian time. ID# CK23AT
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Whales of the Eocene Seas. Basilosaurus (Zeuglodon). ID# CK26T
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Cave Bear. Cenozoic era. ID# CK28T
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American Mastodons. Cenozoic era. ID# CK29T
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Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus. ID# CK31T
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Dinornis, extinct bird. Giant Moas. Cenozoic Era. ID# CK32T
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Small four toed horses of the genus Orohippus and the much larger, but harmless Uintatherium of the Eocene. ID # CK46T
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Ordovician Sea Life, two billion years ago, volcanic activity widespread, shows beached seaweeds, trilobites and cephalopods from the ocean. Cenozoic. ID# CK23BT
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Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus). Late Jurassic period, Mesozoic era. ID# CK5T
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Triceratops and T. rex Tyrannosaurus rex Mesozoic. ID# CK9T
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Nearly two billion years ago, volcanic activity was widespread. ID# CK23T
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Rancho La Brea Tar Pools, Cenozoic era. A Pleistocene panorama set at a pitch pool in California. Shown: large bird Teratornis, saber-tooth cat Smilodon, and an extinct species of horse. ID# CK8T
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Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas, Mesozoic era. Marine reptile Tylosaurus; giant turtle Protostega, flying reptile Pteranodon. ID# CK24_1T
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Irish Deer, Megaloceros, Cenozoic era. ID# CK1T
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Archaeopteryx, Compsognathus and Rhamphorhynchus. Germany, Mesozoic, Lower Jurassic era. ID# CK39T
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Early land plants: Devonian forest plants had covered the land by the middle of the Paleozoic era, 320 million years ago. ID# CK49T
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Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs, Mesozoic era. Helmet-crested Corythosaurus, a herd of long-crested Parasaurolophus, and heavily armored Palaeoscincus. ID# CK13AT
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Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus and Casea. Paleozoic era. Pelycosaurs of the Permian period of Texas. ID# CK45T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
An early Pliocene panorama showing the swamp dwelling rhinoceros Teleoceras, the mastodont Gomphotherium, and the pig like oreodont Ustatochoetus. Cenozoic. ID# CK41T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Giant Kangaroos and wombats. Palorchestes and Diprotodon. In the Cenozoic era, marsupials predominated in Australia. Late Pleistocene time, 100,000 years ago. ID# CK27T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Oligocene Titanotheres. Hyaenodon, Brontotherium and the tortoise (turtle) Stylemys. Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural, installed 1931. ID# CK12T
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Miocene Plains Mammals, Cenozoic era. Camel Oxydactylus, two-horned rhinoceros Menoceras, 3 (three) toed horse Parahippus, giant pig Dinohyus, mammal with claws, Moropus. Charles R. Knight painting. ID# CK19TA
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Great Ground Sloth, Megatherium. Nearly elephant size, and two types of armadillo like glyptodons, spiked tailed Doedicurus and Glyptodon. Charles R. Knight painting. ID# CK21T
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Lizard Tylosaurus; turtle Protostega, flying reptile Pteranodon. Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas Mesozoic; Marine reptiles. Charles R. Knight painting. ID# CK24T
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Reptiles That Invaded The Seas; Plesiosaurus and Stenopterygius, fish shaped ichthyosaur. Charles Knight painting. ID# CK34T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Corals once flourished where Chicago now stands. Large reefs existed here in the Mid-Silurian time, 365 million years ago. Paleozoic era. Charles Knight painting. ID# CK50T
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
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