Object Details
Author
Unknown
Subject
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
Paleontology Laboratory (NMNH)
United States National Museum
National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
Natural History Building
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
For a picture of the Extinct Monsters Hall with the large fossil of a Ray-finned bony fish on exhibit, see Negative # 32017-A. For an earlier picture, see Neg. 2002-21697.
Summary
In the foreground of the Paleontology Laboratory in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, 1926, is a large fossil of a ray-finned bony fish in the matrix on a table. This fossil will be placed on exhibit in "Extinct Monsters Hall" which opened in the 1930s. On another table are the bones of a dinosaur. On the rear wall is a fossil of a Plesiosaurus, an aquatic reptile from the end of the Triassic period (220 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 25
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1926
Standard number
MNH-4886B
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Type
Photographic print
Interior
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Interior; Object; Medium: Photographic print
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Data Source
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
Topic
Dinosaurs
Fishes
Fossils
Laboratories
Museum buildings
Museum--employees
Plesiosaurus
Paleontology
Ray-finned bony fish
Reptiles, Fossil
Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Specimens
Storage
Record ID
siris_sic_7373