Welcome to Catnapin's
Setting Up the Show
Cretaceous Room
"Dinosaurs of Texas" Exhibit at the Grace Museum 2003-04
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Wall Mounted Case of Sea Creatures
on lone from Jo Cox, Judie Ostlien, Don Brenholtz, and Hardin-Simmons University
(Many are from or near Taylor county)
(prepared, identified, and mounted by Jo Cox)
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Tylosaurus nepeolicus & Ammonites
on lone from Ken Barns - replica scull - cast by the Boneheads (from Terlingua Texas)
on lone from Hardin-Simmons University - several ammonites - (from Texas)
Mural painted by LaGina Fairbetter
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Paluxy River Trackways
Early Cretaceous 113 Ma
Display was designed, built, and installed by John David White
A 20 foot mural painted by LaGina Fairbetter depicts the full sized legs of Pleurocoelus.
Beyond is a stalking Acrocanthosaurus and a watchful Iguanodon.
Pleurocoelus: (PLUR-o-SEE-lus) Sauropod, 50 ft long, 80,000 lbs.
Acrocanthosaurus: (AH-cro-CAN-tho-SAW-rus) Theropod, 35 feet long, 12,000 lbs.
Iguanodon: (e-GUAN-o-don) close cousin of the Hadrosaur, 30 ft long, 10,000 lbs.
Single Pleurocoelus footprint placed in children's room.
Designed, built, and installed by John David White
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The Boneheads Hadrosaur
Edmontosaurus sp.
excavated and cast by the Boneheads - thanks for the lone of bones by Ken Barns - (from Terlingua Texas)
mounted replica
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Tyrannosaurus rex
replica of skull - on lone from George Blasing (Dinosaur World)
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Chasmosaurus mariscalensis
cast of scull - on lone from Texas Memorial Museum at Austin (from the Big Bend of Texas)
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Deinosuchus antirrhopus
reconstructed scull - on lone from Texas Memorial Museum at Austin (from the Big Bend of Texas).
(sorry none of the photos came out)
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Malawisaurus dixeyi
mounted replica - on lone from Dallas Museum of Natural History
(not from Texas, but a representative sauropod that just barely fit into the room)
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Alamosaurus sanjuanensis
humerus - on lone from Texas Memorial Museum at Austin (from the Big Bend of Texas)
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Quetzalcoatlus northropi
reconstructed mounted wing - on lone from Texas Memorial Museum at Austin
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Deinonychus antirrhopus
purchased replica of skull - on lone from Scott Clark
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