New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Highlights from the Jurassic
The Late Jurassic was the golden age of dinosaurs, when huge dinosaurs--the largest land animals ever--stalked the landscape.
Below are some of the features in the Age of Super Giants exhibit.
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Overview of the Age of Super Giants Hall.
New Mexico's largest Jurassic meat eater attacking the largest plant eating dinosaur found in the state.
This plated dinosaur greets visitors as they enter the hall.
Late Jurassic stegosaur lived in McKinley and Guadalupe counties.
This mural by Ely Kish depicts a large shallow lake that existed in New Mexico during the Middle Jurassic.
This fish is one of the few animals that lived in the very salty Lake Todilto.
This is one of the two fishes that were able to survive in Lake Todilto. Todilta's stomach contents can easily be seen in this fossil.
Room sized mural commissioned by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History for the museum's opening.
Giant Jurassic dinosaurs were the largest land animals of all time. Like modern-day elephants, these dinosaurs had a large fleshy pad that absorbed their great weight; the toes encircle this pad.
Paleontologists compared the hip and back bones of Seismosaurus to the complete skeleton of the closely-related dinosaur Diplodocus to reconstruct the skeleton of Seismosaurus seen here.
These Certified New Mexico Fossils stretch across the hall's outer edge.
Seismosaur's hip resembles those of the modern lizard.
Late Jurassic theropod from Bernalillo County.
"King of the reptile eaters," from the Greek sauros, "reptile," phagos, "eater" and anax "king;"
Compare Archaeopteryx, as it may have looked 150 million years ago, to a modern Roadrunner.
Dinosaur eggshell fragments found in Sandoval County, New Mexico.
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