Prehistoric Toys and Models Gallery
Welcome to my paleontological and zoological gallery that streches from sponges to humans – all represented in the form of toys and models! Within these pages I have picked one member of each species as a “representative” to be scientifically classified.
Click on the image below to see members of each group classification. The models below are organized by their scientific organization, to see them organized on the geologic time scale click here.
INVERTEBRATES
Animals lacking a backbone. Examples include sponges, coral, worms, clams, snails, squid, insects, sea stars, sand dollars, and sea urchins to name a few.
Porifera
Sea Sponges
Cnidarian
Coral, Sea Jellies, and Anemones
Worms
Various Worm Types
Mollusca
Clams, Snails, and Squid
Arthropoda
Trilobites, Crustaceans, Arachnids, and Insects
Echinodermata
Sea Stars,SeaUrchins, and Sea Cucumbers
VERTEBRATES
Animals with backbones. This grouping includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Early Chordates
Simple and Jawless Fish
Placoderms
Jawed Armored Fish
Chondrichthyes
Sharks, Rays, Skates, and Ratfish
Ray-Finned Fish
Tuna, Eels, Sea Horses, and Salmon
Lobe-Finned Fish
Coelacanth, Lungfish, and Tiktaalik
Amphibians
Frogs and Salamanders
REPTILES: ANAPSIDS AND PARAREPTILIA
Turtles
Modern Marine Reptiles
Pareiasaurs
Terrestrial Anapsids
REPTILES: DIAPSIDS
Clade: Archosaurs “ruling reptiles” including crocodiles, pterosaurs, avian, and non avian dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs
Non Avian Dinosaurs
Birds
Avian Dinosaurs
Pterosaurs
Flying Reptiles
Archosaurmorpha
Crocodiles and their relatives
Order: Squamata includes mosasaurs (extinct marine reptiles), lizards, and snakes.
Mosasaurs
Late Cretaceous Marine Reptiles
Lizards
Monitor Lizards, Geckos and Iguanas
Snakes
Cobras and Pythons
SAUROPTERYGIAN REPTILES: “EURYAPSIDS”
Placodonts
Triassic Marine Reptiles
Atopodentatus
Triassic Herbivorous Marine Reptiles
Nothosaurs
Middle to Late Triassic Marine Reptiles
Plesiosaurs
Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs
Ichthyosaurs
Dolphin-like Marine Reptiles
SYNAPSIDS
“Pelycosaurs”
Non-Mammalian Syanapsids
Therapsids
Incorrectly “Mammal-like Reptiles”
