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...preparation and mounting of the reptile's skeleton will take about two years, he added. The necessary funds, approximately $10,000, have been provided by Godfrey L. Cabot...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

This fossil is the only complete skeleton of a Kronosaurus ever found. William E. Schevill '27, research associate in Zoology at the museum, discovered it in 1931, embedded in rock in Army Downs, North Queensland, Australia...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

...room in the museum will be redesigned to display the skeleton. The bones will be fastened to a steel framework along one side, and a plaster-of-paris wall will be built to cover the frame and simulate the rock wall in which the reptile was found...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

Arnold Lewish, museum preparator is restoring the skeleton, which has a nine foot skull, the longest known fossil reptile skull in the world. The fossil's jaws are nearly 10 times as large as an alligator's with 80 spiky teeth six inches long...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

Donald Baird, assistant curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, will decide what the bones should look like and in what relationship they should be placed. Since this is the only Kronosaurus skeleton ever recovered, the size and placement of bones will be determined by studying other Plesiosaurs, he said...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Zoology Museum to Exhibit Largest Sea-Reptile Fossil | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

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