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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 .
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 ...
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 .
[23] [40] Osborn (1899) included a life impression of AMNH FR 221 by paleoartist Charles R. Knight. [39] The restoration carried a number of erroneous features, such as a baggy throat, bloated belly, and inaccurate paddles and dorsal fin. [41] But a seminal feature was the addition of a dorsal crest (known as a fringe) lining the mosasaur's back.
Officers at Fort Wallace, Kansas, in 1867.Theophilus H. Turner, who the same year discovered Elasmosaurus in the area, is second from left.. In early 1867, the American army surgeon Theophilus Hunt Turner and the army scout William Comstock explored the rocks around Fort Wallace, Kansas, where they were stationed during the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Mosasauroidea is a superfamily of extinct marine lizards that existed during the Late Cretaceous.Basal members of this group consist of small semiaquatic forms with terrestrial limbs ("plesiopedal"), while laters members include larger fully aquatic paddle-limbed ("hydropedal") forms commonly known as mosasaurs. [3]
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 .
Stomach contents from a tylosaur recovered in South Dakota [8] included remains of another mosasaur, a bony fish, the large, flightless seabird Hesperornis, and possibly a shark, indicating that tylosaurs were generalists. Another specimen collected by Charles Sternberg [9] included the bones of a small plesiosaur (see also [10]).