Indholdsfortegnelse for Fall #147 2023 i Prehistoric Times

It has been 68 years (1955) since Karl Zeman released his epic saga of 4 boys in a Journey to the Beginning of Time An adventure so hauntingly beautiful, that it has never been repeated. Enter the year 2023 …… THE ADVENTURE HAS BEEN UPDATED !! THE SAGA RENEWED !! Palaeo-author dale mcinnes, inspired by Zeman, has now rewritten Zeman’s classic saga to 21st C specs. CLOCKWORK STRANGE is a transplantation of this story from the Central European Steppes onto the Central Prairies of North America. It is now burgeoning into an 80-novel Time-Travel series along the time-honored traditions of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World. The number of characters has been expanded from 4 young boys (in the original) to…

1.“Dinosaur Collectibles” price guide co-written and signed by PT editor $35 2. Linde 1950s Coffee Premium plastic dinosaur figs 7 from Austria. $15 ea. 3. Rare 8th Linde figure to complete above set: Rare Rhamphorhynchus $40 4. Marx orig. sm/med 50s/ 60s dinosaur toy figs (green, brown, gray) $5 5. Marx orig. Krono, T-rex (pot-belly or slender) $39, Brontosaurus $34 6. Marx original second series dinos/mammals $12 each, set of all 8 - $79 7. Marx 45mm cavemen (6 diff) $10 ea. 8. Multiple (MPC) dinosaur plastic figures many colors $5-10 each (inquire) 9. JH Miller waxy 50s Dimetrodon, Tricer, Sloth, Mammoth/Mastodon, Woolly Rhino, or Stego $44 (minor damage) Bronto $64, T. rex $70, Pterosaur (foot damage) $59 10. Sinclair 1960s green plastic 10” brontosaur bank $19 11. Sinclair 1934…

The wildly popular book by Jeff Pfeiffer is once again back in print (with a brand new cover!) and ready for purchase! The most complete and comprehensive source for the dinosaur playsets of Marx and MPC available, bar none! Presented in a totally unique format using FULL COLOR photos of each and every prehistoric playset & figure produced by these two iconic (and VERY similar) companies. Say good-bye to grainy line drawings or hard-to-see black & white photos. Each set is photographed fully assembled and 100% complete! Plus chapters on other companies who used the original Marx and MPC molds for dinosaur sets of their own, such as Superior, Dapol, Toy Street, Spaulding, etc. This brand new edition features over 260 full color photos of every playset produced by Marx…

rssknoll@aoll..com www..diinossaurcollllecttorssiittea..com CollectA: Horridus Triceratops Replica 1:40 The Melbourne Museum is a Natural and Cultural History Museum located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. The current exhibit “Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs” is an immersive voyage into a lost world, where visitors will explore the landscapes of the Cretaceous and get to know the creatures that thrived there. Horridus, the most complete Triceratops skeleton in the world, 87% complete, is the center piece. This big guy comprises 266 bones and tips the scales at more than 1,000kg. The Melbourne Museum partnered with CollectA to produce a custom version of their 2023 release. The figure is a custom painted version of CollectA’s 2023, inspired by horridus, released only through the Museum, an instant rare collectable. The Museum-endorsed figure series are…

john.navroth@frontier.com It was warm on the evening of June 2, 1922 in New York City, when members of the American Society of Magicians gathered for a dinner meeting at the Hotel McAlpin. Among the attendees were widely-known professionals, Horace Goldin, Robert Heller and Harry Houdini, Chairman of the Society. At one o’clock in the morning, after the fellow magicians had demonstrated their various specialties in prestidigitation, the guest of honor – invited by Houdini himself – was called to the podium. The famous author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle, who had come to the States for a tour of lectures on Spiritualism, rose from his seat and addressed the audience while a movie projector and screen were set up: “If I brought here in real existence what…

WANTED, top dollar paid for prehistoric animal postcards, posters, pamphlets and other ephemera from museums or fossil sites. I also have a large selection of prehistoric animal ephemera for trading if that is preferable. Please contact Stephen Hubbell, email: morpheus@centurytel.net, phone: (253) 851-7036. WANTED - WHITE POST OVIRAPTOR Seeking collectible plastic dinosaur toy originally sold at Dinosaur Land in White Post, VA in 1960s. Any sellers or leads please contact Ty Herrell at roberttherrell@gmail.com. My name is Kenn Woods and I am setting up a toy dino museum in Front Royal Va. I have the staff, the building, my title is trademarked and the business registered as an LLC. I have over 8,000 toy dinos currently for inventory/display. What I'd like to get a few interested collectors/people to assist me…

Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe Paperback by Trenton W. Holliday, Columbia University Press, 296 pages, ISBN-10: 0231204973, ISBN-13: 978-0231204972, During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of these ancient people has to come from either their skeletons or the tools, art, and debris they left behind. This book tells the story of these dynamic and resilient people in light of recent scientific advances. Trenton Holliday, a paleoanthropologist who has studied the Cro-Magnons for decades explores questions such as: Where and when did anatomically modern humans first emerge?…

Welcome to our cooler Fall issue. I so hope you enjoy it. First things first, we thank Dani Navarro of Spain for his front cover art of Concavenator. Love it! When I went to the comic shop recently I bought the new issue of the horror comic magazine, Shudder. My friend Don Glut writes for it and co-edits it. I like to support him as he is a big dinosaur fan as well as monster fan. Previously I gave him an idea for a story taken right from the news where some hoodlums had destroyed some dinosaur trackways. I told him he should do a story like that and have a indian shaman use his magic to bring some dinosaurs back to get vengeance on the punks. He said he…

Dino.Hunter@cox.net This issue I will be talking about scales in the more advanced theropods (maniraptorans, ornithomimids, tyrannosaurids). Wang et al. (2017) and Pittman et al. (2022) used laser fluorescence on several specimens of Anchiornis and Microraptor (actually as many different dinosaurs as they were allowed to at a few Chinese museums). They were able to show that under the toes on the foot/pes there are tiny round scales on small pads. Wang et al. (2017) found scales on different parts of the body, on the fingers of Anchiornis, pebble-shaped tibia scales, and equivocal ankle scales. Unfortunately, they didn’t find any large scales or scales in general on the upper side of the toes (Figure 1). Microraptor (IVPP V13352) has soft tissue on the neck, ventrum, legs, and base of the…

Escape Hatch Hobbies sent us a review kit of their new 3D printed Sleestak model and it looks fantastic. The Sleestak are an extra-dimensional race of reptilian bipedal humanoid species native to the Land of the Lost. They appeared in all three seasons of the TV show Land of the Lost (starting in 1974) as well as in variant forms in two reboots in which they were described more as intelligent dinosaurian creatures. The show also included many dinosaurs and monsters. The Sleestak have large, round black eyes which are averse to light. Covered mostly in green scales with yellow thoraxes, they have claws on their feet and on their hands which can function as pincers. The Sleestak also have a single horn protruding backward from the top of their…

dinosauriana@protonmail.com Accuracy is really the end game of all paleontological endeavors, be it a research paper, abstract or artistic restoration of an extinct animal. Accuracy is also what I strive for as editor-in-chief of Dinosauriana: The Essential Guide to Collecting Figural, Toy and Model Dinosaurs, a project begun in 2008 by collector Joe DeMarco because no such reliable and exhaustive reference existed. Field guides existed to identifying fossils and dinosaurs but none existed on their man-made, scaled-down counterparts (dubbed ‘dinosauriana’) many of us have sharing bookshelf space with such guides. The parallels to paleontology were drawn even in the early days of the project. Our work entails discovering, describing / redescribing and cataloging of ephemeral, figural or toy dinosaurs. The Foreword to Dinosauriana basically answers the inevitable ‘Why collect?’ questions…

I read the 1987 Childcraft book Dinosaurs. As usual, I was worried about the pronunciations in it and a few vague facts. The standard pronunciations can be useful knowledge. PT has much other obscurity elucidated, and so this name information can be helpful for those "sounding out" from the mouth! Back in 1987 Childcraft, World Book, Inc., published a 304-page hardcover book as part of their series from 1984 to 1988 at 26 volumes describing clearly and helpfully all phases of reality for young readers. I, at 82 years of age, chose to read Dinosaurs (A supplement to Childcraft—The How and Why Library; ISBN 0-7166-0687-9) in June 2023 and to enjoy the excellent and lively color drawings, pictures, and artwork in a multiauthor book. It was up to date on…

In an alternate-reality world where the American Civil War lasted ten years, technology has advanced rapidly. A decade after the guns of the South were silenced, the embers of war still burn white hot. English Canada and French Mexico still snarl at the Union, but a new terror faces the country. Former army major John Morton, now a museum professor, is recruited by his old army comrade, now a Catholic priest, to find missing parishioners. As they will learn, the solution to the riddle is only the start of a cross-county adventure. Recruited to join an eclectic undercover government team, Civil War veteran Morton joins a priest, a beautiful female assassin, a genius black tinker, and an orphaned girl in the race to find a way to preserve the Union.…

Switzerland is indeed a picturesque country, a land of great beauty and diversity in landscape, culture, and people. Many rich fossil beds are located in Switzerland as well, along with some fine natural history museums. And the crown jewel of these can be found just outside Zurich, near the town of Aathal. Housed in a former textile factory and in operation since 1993, the Sauriermuseum Aathal is the largest dinosaur museum in Switzerland, as well as one of the biggest in Europe. Sauriermuseum Aathal is the vision come to life of its founder, Dr. Hans-Jakob Siber, one of Europe’s most well known paleontologists and dinosaur hunters. Dr. Siber’s efforts have gained him many awards world wide, among them the Charles H. Sternberg medal for outstanding achievement in the science of…

(Concluding from last issue) As the tyrannosaur turned, its tail whipped around like a heavy steel girder tethered to a crane's trolley. Lisa saw the calamity coming and managed to duck. Ray failed to see the danger, receiving the brunt of the creature's involuntary spasm squarely in the chest. An airless gasp escaping his lungs, Ray was flung carelessly across the base camp, airborne at an altitude of twenty feet. Like a comet, his body soared across the sky until vanishing over a disheveled tent, landing somewhere along the southern-facing slope. Alexis gasped, knowing he'd be dead on impact, if not earlier. The entire base camp—which had been in impeccable shape a minute earlier—had become a battered collage of ramshackle dwellings, toppled tables, and faulty transmission equipment. Hadrosaurs weaved through…