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Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States .
Dryptosaurus (/ ˌ d r ɪ p t oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / DRIP-toh-SOR-əs) is a genus of eutyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived on the island continent of Appalachia approximately 67-66 million years ago during the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period.
La Brea Tar Pits fauna as depicted by Charles R. Knight A list of prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits , located in present-day Hancock Park , a city park on the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire district in Los Angeles , California .
The dinosaur, which dates from the late Jurassic period some 150 million years ago, was first discovered in Wyoming in the 1990s. It was initially restored in 2000 by palaeontologist Barry James ...
Paleoartist Charles R. Knight, the first to depict dinosaurs as active animals, dominated the paleoart landscape through the early 1900s. The modern era of paleoart was brought first by the " dinosaur renaissance ", a minor scientific revolution beginning in the early 1970s in which dinosaurs came to be understood as active, alert creatures ...
Painting by paleoartist Charles R. Knight of Agathaumas, the first named marginocephalian, from 1897. Marginocephalia is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes some of the most well-known Mesozoic animals, such as Triceratops and Pachycephalosaurus.
This is the well-known mount poised over a partial Apatosaurus skeleton as if scavenging it, illustrated as such in a painting by Charles R. Knight. Although notable as the first free-standing mount of a theropod dinosaur and often illustrated and photographed, it has never been scientifically described. [13]
When Charles R. Knight produced that painting in 1909, he titled his work with the genus name that was in use at the time: Trachodon. Currently these specimens (AMNH 5730 and AMNH 5886) are classified as large Edmontosaurus annectens .