Tyrannosaurus rex, right hand Styracosaurus Hand Carved Figure/Sculpture

Hand Carved Figure/Sculpture

Others are less easy to interpret and may belong to extinct phyla

Feathered Family

It used to be called Buettneria perfecta until very recently (2007) when somebody noticed that the genus name was preoccupied by a cricket

This quadrupedal plant-eater had a whip-like tail

Tyrannosaurus rex, right hand Styracosaurus Hand Carved Figure/SculptureThis is a replica of the right hand of Tyrannosaurus rex. When Tyrannosaurus rex was first discovered, the humerus was the only element of the forelimb known. For the initial mounted skeleton as seen by the public in 1915, Osborn substituted longer, three fingered forelimbs like those of Allosaurus. However, a year earlier, Lawrence Lambe described the short, two fingered forelimbs of the closely related Gorgosaurus. This strongly suggested that