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Elmer Riggs, the first curator of Fossil Mammals (wearing cap) and field laboratory assistant Harold W. Menke preparing Grand Junction Colorado fossils including the Brachiosaurus femur still in plaster jacket at left. Paleontology Laboratory, Field Columbian Museum.Credit Information:Neg. # CSGEO3251cPhotographer: unknown
Unidentified Expedition member lying next to Brachiosaurus altithorax humerus. 1900.
Benld Meteorite. Ed McCain near the car that was hit by the meteorite. 1938.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO79617Photographer unknown
Late Ordovician Life diorama 390 million years ago models of: seaweed, coral, brachiopod, clam, snail, cephalopod and trilobite.
Middle Cambrian Life diorama, 500 million years ago. Shown are models of: seaweed, sponges, sea cucumbers, brachiopods, worm, trilobites and crustaceans. Fine grained shale bed from British Columbia.
Mastodon americanus, Kerr skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO82370Photographer unknown
Eugene Richardson, Curator of Paleontology and Tibor Perenyi, scientific illustrator, creating a model of the Tully Monster, Tullimonstrum gregarium, for exhibitCredit Information:Neg. # GEO82825Photographer: unknown
Meteorite slice.
Media for Mazon Creek Fossil Invertebrates
Albertosaurus libratus fossil skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO85827cPhotographer unknown
Albertosaurus, black background, Albertosaurus libratus. Size: 27 ft (8.5m) long, 2.5 tons (2,500kg). Late Cretaceous, 75-85 million years ago.
Soft-shelled turtle. Apalone sp. (with Diplomystus dentatus, Pareodus testis, and Knightia eocaena). Early Eocene (50 million years ago) Fossil Lake, Wyoming.Credit Information:Neg. # GEO85891cPhotographer: unknown
Fossil of a fish eating a fish: Mioplosus labrocoides swallowing a knightia eocaena.
Skeleton of Columbian Mammoth in Teeth Tusks and Tar Pits exhibit. Charles Knight La Brea Tar Pools painting in background.
Sue, Tyrannosaurus rex, five foot long, 2000 pound skull.
Sue, T. rex dinosaur skull, profile, jaws open, 5 feet long.
External view, 3/4 of Sue, T. rex skull. CT scan made at Boeing Corporation, California. Credit Information: Neg. # GEO86195_3cCT Scan by Chris Brochu
Opal Cabochon brooch with carved face of Sun God, gold mounting.
Lepidopteris ottonis (Seed Fern). East Greenland Expedition, 2002. Astartekloft, Hess 89, Bed 4.
Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box.
Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box, emphasis on skull.
Gorgosaurus libratus, Lambe fossil skeleton in Stanley Field Hall.
Sue, T. rex, fossil skeleton with white background.
Sue T. rex reconstructed cast of skull.
Topazes (smoky topaz), 3 gems shown.
Chalmers Topaz. Flawless faceted white oval with blue cast.
Dimetrodon.
Stenopterygius quardiscissus (Quenstedt) (or quadricissus), fossil skeleton of a fish-shaped ichthyosaur with epidermis outline preserved.
Tiffany window, mermaid and fish. Viewable in the Granger Hall of Gems on the Museum's upper level.
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