Paleontology Laboratory, USNM
ID: MNH-4886B
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1926
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 25
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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).
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.
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
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Dinosaurs
- Laboratories
- Employees
- Plesiosaurus
- Reptiles, Fossil
- Museums
- Paleontology
- Fossils
- Museum buildings
- Ray-finned bony fish
- Storage
- Fishes
- Personnel management
- Smithsonian Institution
- Specimens
- Museum--employees
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Interior
ID Number
MNH-4886B
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Interior; Object; Medium: Photographic print