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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
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Unidentified Expedition member lying next to Brachiosaurus altithorax humerus. 1900.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
Benld Meteorite. Ed McCain near the car that was hit by the meteorite. 1938.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO79617Photographer unknown
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Late Ordovician Life diorama 390 million years ago models of: seaweed, coral, brachiopod, clam, snail, cephalopod and trilobite.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
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.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Mastodon americanus, Kerr skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO82370Photographer unknown
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
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
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Meteorite slice.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Media for Mazon Creek Fossil Invertebrates
(c) Unspecified
Albertosaurus libratus fossil skeleton.Credit Information: Neg. # GEO85827cPhotographer unknown
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Albertosaurus, black background, Albertosaurus libratus. Size: 27 ft (8.5m) long, 2.5 tons (2,500kg). Late Cretaceous, 75-85 million years ago.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
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
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Fossil of a fish eating a fish: Mioplosus labrocoides swallowing a knightia eocaena.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Skeleton of Columbian Mammoth in Teeth Tusks and Tar Pits exhibit. Charles Knight La Brea Tar Pools painting in background.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Sue, Tyrannosaurus rex, five foot long, 2000 pound skull.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Sue, T. rex dinosaur skull, profile, jaws open, 5 feet long.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
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
(c) The Field Museum
Opal Cabochon brooch with carved face of Sun God, gold mounting.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Lepidopteris ottonis (Seed Fern). East Greenland Expedition, 2002. Astartekloft, Hess 89, Bed 4.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box.
(c) The Field Museum
Sue, T. rex, completed mount of fossil skeleton before unveiling, behind the white curtain / box, emphasis on skull.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Gorgosaurus libratus, Lambe fossil skeleton in Stanley Field Hall.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Sue, T. rex, fossil skeleton with white background.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Sue T. rex reconstructed cast of skull.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Topazes (smoky topaz), 3 gems shown.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Chalmers Topaz. Flawless faceted white oval with blue cast.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
Dimetrodon.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Stenopterygius quardiscissus (Quenstedt) (or quadricissus), fossil skeleton of a fish-shaped ichthyosaur with epidermis outline preserved.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History
Tiffany window, mermaid and fish. Viewable in the Granger Hall of Gems on the Museum's upper level.
(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
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