Leyster's Collection

Wuerhosaurus is a very interesting creature, I guess. It is a pity so little is known about it.

Roger wrote:

Wuerhosaurus is a very interesting creature, I guess. It is a pity so little is known about it.

Yes, expecially in being one of the few Cretaceous Stegosaurs, living a good 20 milion years after Stegosaurus.

Binomial name: Struthiomimus altus (Lambe, 1902)
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Coelurosauria->Tyrannoraptora->Maniraptoromorpha->Neocoelurosauria->Maniraptoriformes->Ornithomimosauria->Ornithomimidae
Time: Campanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Oldman Formation (present day Canada)
Manifacturer and date of release: Collecta, 2016
Sculptor: Matt Geiger
Scale: 1:30 for AMNH 5375
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Finally an ornithomimosaur in my collection. I still have to find a Deinocheirus which satisfies me.

Binomial name: Cladoselache fyleri (Newberry, 1889)
Classification: Holocephali->Symmoriiformes->Cladoselachidae
Time: Famennian (late Devonian)
Formation: Cleveland Shale (present-day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2001
Sculptor: Eiichiro Matsumoto
Scale: up to 1:28 for a largeish specimen, most were smaller tho.
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So pretty! I kinda wanted to photograph it and Xenacanthus next to the Requins books by Beneteau and Cuny, which kindled my interest in acquiring these figures, but I quickly realized that it's a big book that totally dwarfs the two Kaiyodos.

Binomial name: Dilophosaurus wetherilli Welles 1970
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Dilophosauridae
Time: Sinemurian-Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic)
Formation: Kayenta Formation (present day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: Safari LTD, 2020
Sculptor: Doug Watson
Scale: 1:35 for UCMP 37302
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A cute little figure sadly victim of the progress: not too after it's release, a new study showed that Dilophosaurus was more robustly built and differently proportioned than the Coelophysis-like animal we imagined. Oh well, at least it's a reasonable Dilophosaurus in 1/35, I was afraid the old Carngies would remain forever alone. Still I can't wait for some company (other than Collecta's so and so version) to tackle the new Dilophosaurus!

Binomial name: Tylosaurus nepaeolicus Cope, 1874
Classification: Squamata->Mosasauroidea->Mosasauridae->Russellosaurina?*->Tylosaurinae
Time: Coniacian/Santonian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Niobrara Formation (present day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2021
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:13 for AMNH 1565, 1:18 for FHSM VP2209 (largest specimen)
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*Maybe. Mosasaur taxonomy is a complex matter, Tylosaurus may even belong to a group which developed acquatic adaptation indipendently  to Mosasaurus

There are a number of traits in this model which suggest it to be based on Tylosaurus nepaeolicus and they will be the subject of a future Paleo-Nerd video or review, but if you want to consider it T.proriger (it's still possible, they're chronospecies), then it's 1:32 for KUVP 5033 ("Bunker", largest specimen).

Binomial name: Acrocanthosaurus atokensis Stovall & Langston 1950
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Carnosauria->Allosauroidea->Allosauria->Carcharodontosauria->Carcharodontosauridae
Time: Aptian-Albian (Early Cretaceous)
Formation: Twin Mountains Formation, Antlers Formation, Cloverly Formation (present day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: Papo, 2018 (2017 for the sculpture)
Sculptor: Seo Jung-woon
Scale: you'll get different results for each bone measured, the skull is 1:27
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Ok, I guess this requires a bit of an explanation. I own it since long time (in fact, it's a first release), but hestated at including it in my collection hoping that somebody would've produced a better Acrocanthosaurus (proportions have great issues, also not a fan of the pose). But, after seeing the new PNSO Acrocanthosaurus (which I'm probably gone getting anyway), I found myself liking the look of this one more, in spite of its inaccuracies. For sure, it has a great pattern and I appreciate some choices, such as the keratinization of the skull.

I missed a lot of posts meanwhile but Cladoselache seems to be the most interesting among these.

Binomial name: Anhanguera blittersdorffi Campos & Kellner, 1985
Classification: Pterosauria->Macronychoptera->Novialoidea->Breviquartossa->Pterodactylomorpha->Caelidracones->Pterodactyloidea->Lophocratia->Eupterodactyloidea->Ornithocheiroidea->Pteranodontoidea->Ornithocheiromorpha->Lanceodontia->Anhangueria->Anhangueridae->Anhanguerinae
Time: Albian (Early Cretaceous)
Formation: Romualdo Formation (present day Brazil)
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2001
Sculptor: Takashi Kinoshita
Scale: 1:25
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From small to really, really big

Binomial name: Huanghetitan liujiaxiaensis You et al. 2006 (alternatively, "H."ruyangensis Lü et al., 2007)
Classification: Dinosauria->Sauropodomorpha->Bagualosauria->Massopoda->Sauropodiformes->Sauropoda->Eusauropoda->Macronaria->Titanosauriformes
Time: Barremian if Huanghetitan liujiaxiaensis, Aptian/Albian if "H".ruyangensis (in both cases, Early Cretaceous)
Formation: Lanzhou Basin of the Hekou Group if Huanghetitan liujiaxiaensis, Haoling Formation if "H."ruyangensis (in both cases, present day China)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2016
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:18 if Huanghetitan liujiaxiaensis, 1:25 if "H".ruyangensis

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*PNSO didn't specify the species, but the fact that when they talk about Huanghetitan they metion how wide its body cavity was, which is a feature very "pubblicized" in "H." ruyangensis, make me think it's meant to represent this species. But "H."ruyangensis be a nomen dubium.

And here is my review of this model!

Binomial name: Tanystropheus longobardicus Bassani, 1886
Classification: Archosauromorpha->Protorosauria->Tanystropheidae
Time: Anisian-Ladinian (Middle Triassic)
Formation: Besano Formation (present day Italy and Switzerland)
Manifacturer and date of release: Carnegie Collection of Safari LTD, 2000
Sculptor: Forest Rogers
Scale: 1:17
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Strange animal! I suppose the long neck could be used as kind of a snorkel?

I have that one! I call it Audrey Hepburn. very interesting creature.

rogerpgvg wrote:

Strange animal! I suppose the long neck could be used as kind of a snorkel?

Tanystropheus' ecology is a bit controversial. There is support for it being a shoreline predator that used the neck as a fishing pole (Beardmore & Fuller, 2017)or a semiacquatic predator that used the long neck to approach its prey without being spotted (Renesto & Sallerz, 2018)

pipsxlch wrote:

I have that one! I call it Audrey Hepburn.  very interesting creature.

Yeah, Triassic was full of very strange lifeforms.


Binomial name: Cryolophosaurus ellioti Hammer & Hickerson 1994
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda
Time: Sinemurian or Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic)
Formation: Hanson Formation (present day Antartica)
Manifacturer and date of release: Battat, 2014
Sculptor: Dan LoRusso
Scale: 1:36 for FMNH PR1821
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Definitely my favorite figure among the new Battat releases.

Is it painted like a skink? I enjoy it.

Roger wrote:

Is it painted like a skink? I enjoy it.

I'm not an expert of skinks, but it might be!

Binomial name: Deinotherium giganteum Kaup, 1929
Classification: Placentalia->Atlantogenata->Afrotheria->Paenungulata->Tethytheria->Proboscidea->Plesielephantiformes->Deinotheriidae->Deinotheriinae
Time: (Langhian?) Serravalian-Zanclean (Middle Miocene - Early Pliocene)
Formation: St. Stephan, Kohfidisch, Outcrop A, B, C (present day Austria); Hadjidimovo 2, Azmaka 1, 2, 4 (present day Bulgaria);    Sansan, Cucuron (present day France); El'dar, Udabno I, II (present day Georgia); Ravin de la Pluie, Halmyropotamos, Maronia, Gela, Agia Paraskevi (present day Greece); Rudabánya (present day Hungary); Shakhty (present day Kazakhstan); Cioburciu, Tarakliya, Chimishliya (present day Moldova); Birzavita II (present day Romania); Los Valles de Fuentiduenya, Barranc de Can Vila, Olesa de Montserrat-Viladecavalls (present day Spain); Kurtchuk-Tchekmedje, Yulafli, Pasalar (present day Turkey); Krivoy Rog, Novo-Yelizavetovka, Grebnicki, Tul'chino, Belka, Tanovka, Chernovo, Rakhanh Lesovyye, Timanovka, Likhtental', Kul'm (present day Ukraine)
Manifacturer and date of release: Eofauna, 2019
Sculptor: Shu-yu Hsu?
Scale: 1:36 for Eppelsheim specimen
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Probably my next Eofauna model.

Roger wrote:

Probably my next Eofauna model.

It's well worth its price (even if my favorite Eofauna is the Palaeoloxodon)


Binomial name: Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik, 1952
Classification: Tetrapodomorpha->Tetrapoda
Time: Fammenian (Late Devonian)
Formation: Britta Dal Formation (present day Denemark)
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2001
Sculptor: Seiji Yamamoto
Scale: 1:7
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The Yujin probably reflects better the actual animal, but this Kaiyodo is still nice and easier to find. Another animal whose photo we should all keep in our family album (well, unless it's part of a radiation of early tetrapods which are not ou direct ancestors)

Fantastic figure, maybe Michael Phelps old relative.

Leyster wrote:

Roger wrote:

Probably my next Eofauna model.

It's well worth its price (even if my favorite Eofauna is the Palaeoloxodon)

Mine either.

Dunno if I've already posted this. My spreadsheet says not, but I might've forgotten ticking it off.

Binomial name: Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis Ouyang, 1992
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Thyreophora->Stegosauria->Stegosauridae
Time: Oxfordian (Late Jurassic)
Formation: Upper Shaximiao/Shangshaximiao Formation (present day China)
Manifacturer and date of release: Collecta, 2017
Sculptor: Matt Geiger
Scale: 1:27
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I think it was not posted before.
Definitely I love stegosaurs.

Roger wrote:

I think it was not posted before.
Definitely I love stegosaurs.

And this is a weird stegosaurian, too: look a those enormous spikes. Strange that no other company tackled it.


Binomial name: Lystrosaurus cf. georgi? Kalandadze 1975
Classification: Anomodontia->Chainosauria->Dicynodontia->Pristerodontia->Dicynodontoidea->Lystrosauridae
Time: Induan (Early Triassic). As whole, the genus span from Late Permian to Early Triassic
Formation: Vokhmian Formation (present-day Russia)
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2002
Sculptor: Seiji Yamamoto
Scale: 1:12 for PIN 3447/ 1 (Lystrosaurus georgi). Other species were bigger.
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Everybody should keep a Lystrosaurus picture in their family album