Historic Iguanodon reconstruction

(Illustration from the 19th century)

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Iguanodon
1850s – Éloffe Style

Historic Scientific Model in Museum Quality (3D printing).
Available in three sizes and two colourations: Hawkins style (animal: anthracite + baseplate: black) and Éloffe style (animal: bronze shades + baseplate: grey). Or let us know your personal size/colour requests by email: office@palaeolove.com

Model Sizes 1 to 3
Length: 20, 28 or 39 cm
Width: 7, 10 or 14 cm
Height: 15, 21.5 or 30 cm
Scale: 1:50, 1:36 or 1:26
Weight: 128, 417 or 1300 g

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450.00 CHF1'650.00 CHF

Delivery time: 4-6 weeks


SKU: 900019 - 900021

 

Historic Scientific Model in Museum Quality (3D printing) of an old original table model of a life-size sculpture made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in the middle of the 19th century. Customising of colouring and/or size of the model is also possible. Let us know your personal requests by email: office@palaeolove.com

  • Each model is hand-painted and therefore unique.

Taxonomic note: The model shows Iguanodon MANTELL, 1825 respectively Mantellisaurus PAUL, 2007. If PAUL is right the model scale after the type specimen would then be: 1:30 (size 1), 1:21 (size 2) and 1:15 (size 3).

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The abbreviation «MIO» (= million, after the German national standard DIN 5008) – occasionally found on our goods and product pages to indicate the geological age of fossil taxa – is equivalent to «MYA» (= million years ago).

 

Depicted Animal

Iguanodon  MANTELL, 1825
10 respectively 6 M    128 MYA   

Historic model from the 1850s

Systematics: Iguanodontidae, Ornithopoda, Ornithischia, Dinosauria, Ornithodira, Archosauria, Diapsida, Reptilia
Habitat: terrestrial; lowlands

In the middle of the 19th century the English sculptor and natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawinks and the then superintendent of the Natural History Department of the British Museum Richard Owen worked together to create first life-size reconstructions of prehistoric animals. They were commissioned in 1852 and unveiled around 1854 in the Crystal Palace Park were they are still visible today.

Nice table models were prepared from some of the Crystal Palace outdoor sculptures in full-length and sold worldwide in the second half of the 19th century by James Tennant, London, Arthur Éloffe, Paris, and Henry A. Ward, Rochester, USA. Today, these small historic models are very rare and can almost be found only at auctions. With our hand-painted Iguanodon respectively Mantellisaurus 3D print we thus close a gap by making one of these lovely models again available to all enthusiasts of the prehistoric world and palaeontological research history respectively.

The genus name Iguanodon means «iguana tooth» in reference to the fact that the morphology of its teeth resembles the one of the green iguana. Iguanodon was an Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur that fed on plants and probably used its spike-like thumbs and powerful tail as defensive weapons against carnivorous dinosaurs. Even though ornithopods were generally biped, Iguanodon stood and usually walked on all fours.

At this point it has to be mentioned that the Crystal Palace Iguanodon and hence also Hawkins' archetype of our historic model may be based on the Maidstone specimen from Kent, South England, also known as Gideon Mantell's «mantel-piece», which is now referred to Mantellisaurus PAUL, 2007 or rather to Mantellodon PAUL, 2012. Therefore, one of these new genus names may become the new proper scientific name for the Maidstone specimen and hence also for the Crystal Palace Iguanodon, Hawkins' miniature archetype and our historic model. Currently, we follow NORMAN (2013) and prefer the use of the genus name Mantellisaurus to solve this nomenclatorical problem.

The historic Iguanodon respectively Mantellisaurus model has a massive body resembling the one of a heavily built ungulate and carries its thumb as a rhinoceros-like horn on the top of its snout. These errors in the prehistoric animal reconstruction discussed here identifies it as a clear representation of the state of palaeontological knowledge in the 1850s.

Further readings
> Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and the Crystal Palace Prehistoric Animals
> Arthur Éloffe
> Henry A. Ward
> James Tennant
> Early Iguanodon Life Reconstructions


  • NORMAN, D.B. (2013): On the taxonomy and diversity of Wealden iguanodontian dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda). Revue de Paléobiologie 32 (2): 385-404.
  • PAUL, G.S. (2007): Turning the old into new: a separate genus for the gracile iguanodont from the Wealden of England. - In: K. CARPENTER (ed), Horns and Beaks, Indiana University Press: 69-77.
  • PAUL, G. S. (2012): Notes on the rising diversity of iguanodont taxa, and iguanodonts named after Darwin, Huxley, and evolutionary science. - In: P.H. HURTADO et al. (eds), Actas de V Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontologia de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Colectivo Arqueologico y Paleontologico de Salas, C.A.S., Salas de Los Infantes, Burgos 5: 123-133.

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