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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology

Asset ID ptc-2425

Title Tylosaurus dyspelor

Description Restoration of the great marine lizard, Tylosaurus, which swam in prehistoric seas between 87 and 82 million years ago. It was a fierce marine reptile that used its sharp teeth and huge jaws to feed on sharks and other marine reptiles, such as plesiosaurs, as well as fish. A Tylosaurus could grow as long as 50 feet and was a superb swimmer.

Agent (Role) Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 (Artist)

Date [1899]

Artwork/Object Type Paintings

Physical dimensions 62 x 82 cm.

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Special Collections: [no call number]: Tylosaurus Dyspelor, Charles R. Knight, [1899].

External Resource AMNH Library authority record: Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953

Alternate Versions Photographic Negative Number: 46624

Other Number Barcode Number: 100210178

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Repository American Museum on Natural History

Publication History Page 209: .Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1918. The Origin and Evolution of Life : On the Theory of Action, Reaction and Interaction of Energy. London: G. Bell.

Page 45: Czerkas, Sylvia Massey, and Donald F. Glut. 1982. Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen : The Art of Charles R. Knight. 1st ed. New York: E.P. Dutton.

Opposite title page: Milner, Richard, and Charles Robert Knight. 2012. Charles R. Knight : The Artist Who Saw through Time. New York: Abrams.

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