Part II: More Dinosaurs
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Plate 5. The Labyrinthodon group. These are the earliest animals represented (Hawkins, following the beliefs about evolution of the time, assumed that they'd look sort of like frogs), and the least dramatic-looking sculptures. I've included a picture for the sake of completeness. | ||
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Plate 6. A shot of the Icthyosaur group, taken from the hillside in late November, when the leaves are off the trees and you actually get a reasonably good view of the little one in the middle. | ||
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Plate 7. While I was at it, I took another of the Iguanadon group from a different angle, just for the heck of it. | ||
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Plate 8. A monarch-of-the-glen style shot of the Irish Elk group, which is well off to the side and a bit embarrassed-looking. At one time their antlers were genuine Irish Elk fossil antlers, which have since been replaced with plaster and knocked about by vandals.That hedge in the left background conceals the megatherium (giant sloth), locked in a compound that used to be the children's zoo. I tried to take a photo of it through the fence but thus far none have come out. | ||
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Plate 9. The original head of the Hylaeosaur (remember, the current one is fibreglass), now in front of the Parks Information office, which I happened upon by accident one day looking for the Paleotherium group (the rest of the mammals, who should have been near the elks, but weren't). Shortly thereafter I met a young local who claimed that the dinosaurs were all, in fact, fibreglass, and built in the 1920s. He was considerably taller than I am, so I let it pass. | ||
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Plate 10. It took a fair bit of looking, but I finally found the Paleotherium group, or what's left of it anyway. It's been moved to a compound of miscellaneous equipment; given the derelict state of the sculptures, one can only hope that they are awaiting repairs rather than demolition. Left to right: Paleotherium, Anoplothereum gracile, rump of A. communis. |