For over 25 years, Safari Ltd.® has been proud to provide this premier line of scale model, dinosaur collectibles. These award winning dinosaur replicas are authenticated by the paleontologists of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, who houses the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world. Each Carnegie dinosaur can have up to 25 steps of hand painting to ensure the highest quality in the world marketplace. The scale of these dinos are either 1:20 or 1:40. Detailed educational information in 5 languages are provided with each replica. All our products are phthalate-free and thoroughly safety tested to safeguard your child's health. Safari Ltd.® takes pride in providing breathtaking, innovative and value priced figures for now over 3 generations. Each January, Safari Ltd.® introduces 2 new Carnegie models to encourage the collectability of such an intriguing line. Featured is our Carnegie Collection Tylosaurus Size: 11.75" L x 2.5" H (30 x 6.5 cm). Suggested age 3+
NAME: Tylosaurus (“knob lizard”)
KIND: Mosasauridae (“Meuse River lizards”)
FOOD: Carnivore and piscivore (meat and fish eater)
WHEN: Late Cretaceous (about 85 million years ago)
WHERE: Western North America
LENGTH: 40 feet (12 m)
WEIGHT: About 3 tons (2,700 kg)
SCALE: 1:40
Educational Information
Tylosaurus is not a dinosaur, but instead is a mosasaur – an extinct group of seagoing reptiles that are closely related to modern lizards and snakes. Mosasaurs first appeared about 100 million years ago and rapidly spread around the world, even to Antarctic waters. They vanished along with dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period (the third and final period of the Age of Dinosaurs) about 66 million years ago. A hunter of large fishes and smaller marine reptiles, Tylosaurus is one of the largest and best-known mosasaurs.
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