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Chinasaurs II

Chinasaurs Facts

Now Exhibiting:
Dallas Museum of Nature and Science

http://www.natureandscience.org/

Size: 6,500 to 10,000 square feet
Venue Length: 3 to 6 months
Date Tour Began: Spring 2003
Education: Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/

Host Institutions for this Exhibition:
Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada
Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona
COSI, Columbus, Ohio
Science Museum of Minnesota
The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Washington
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon
The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Description:
Chinasaurs is a gala exhibition of the largest collection of authentic Chinese dinosaurs ever toured. More than 20 skeletons, up to 65-feet long, and numerous fossil objects including nests, are displayed in an evocative environment, accompanied by 3 original 20-foot murals created by Chinese artists and the Royal Museum of British Columbia. Interactives include activity carts and an 8 x 12 foot dig pit. Elaborate signage completes this exhibitry spectacle, which attracted over 400,000 visitors at its debut venue--a museum record in British Columbia!
China presents the broadest array of dinosaurs across dinosaur time of any country, yet its dinosaurs are little known here. These rare finds offer a new and exciting presentation of an ever-popular theme: Dinosaurs!
*Robotic Dinosaurs are available to augment the exhibition.

Ceiling Height: 13 feet – not including two skeletons 15 and 23 feet respectively

Chinasaurs Exhibition Contents

Original Triassic Fossils

1. Lufengosaurus - 15 foot long youngster, half-grown of plant eater that was an ancestor of giants like Mamenchisaurus. Known as a prosauropod, this dinosaur comes from southern China.
2. Keichousaurus - 5-inch fossil plaque
3. Jingshanosaurus - 42 feet long, 6 feet high, one of the prosauropod ancestors of the giant plant-eating dinosaurs. Dinosaurs of this kind were found world-wide in the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods
4. Yunnanosaurus - 20 feet long, 9 feet high, part fossil/part cast skeleton, of the same species as Jingshanosaurus

Triassic Cast

1. Lystrosaurus - a 3-foot pig-like herbivore that tore off tough plants with its sharp beak.

Original Jurassic Fossil

1. Lufengosaurus - 15-foot-long younster, planteater that was an ancestor of giants like Mamenchisaurus. Known as a prosauropod, this dinosaur comes from southern China.
   

Jurassic Casts

1. Tuojiangosaurus - planteater 20 feet long, 7 feet high Early stegosaur with sharp spines (2 adults)
2. Bellusaurus - planteater 13.25 feet long, 5 feet high Tiny for a relative of giant plant eaters
3. Mamenchisaurus adult - giant planteater, 67 feet long, 15 feet high. Longest necked animal ever
4. Mamenchisaurus juvenile - planteater 15 feet long, 23 feet high (rearing on hind legs)
5. Mamenchisaurus baby - planteater 15 feet long
6. Monolophosaurus and Tuojiangosaurus - meateater 16.5 feet long, 7.5 feet - Single crested large early meateater fighting early stegosaur 20 feet long and 7 feet high
7. Dilophosaurus – meateater 16 feet long, 7 feet high. Double crested killer made far smaller in the Jurassic Park films - one of first Jurassic killer giants.
8. Szechuanosaurus - 15 foot long, mid-sized meateater from middle of China
9. Monolophosaurus - meateater 18 feet long, 7 feet high
10. Oviraptor - 6.5 feet long, a toothless meat-eating dinosaur that had a sharp beak like a bird's. It may have eaten insects, lizards and small mammals.
11. Yanchuanosaurus - 30 feet long, meateater with pillar-like hind legs from Xinjiang Province, China
12. Mamenchisaurus Fossil Wall - cast Mamenchisaurus in dirt, 6.5 feet high, 36 feet long, in five sections
13. Mamenchisaurus skull - 24 x 13 x 16 inches
14. Two dinosaur footprints - 6 x 5 inches and 9 x 8 inches

Original Cretaceous Fossils

1. Bactrosaurus - plant-eater 6 feet long, 3 feet high, a duckbilled dinosaur related closely to those known from North America – a proof of connection of Asia and N. America
2. Protoceratops - 4 feet long, 2 feet high, an early relative of Triceratops of North America.
3. Psittacosaurus - plant eater 4 feet long, 2 feet high - earliest known ancestor of horned dinosaur, a little animal that ran on four legs or two –
4. Rehosaurus in dirt - 1.5 x 1.4 feet, crow-sized new species of meat-eating dinosaur, spectaculary preserved in rock from Liaoning quarry site of feathered dinosaurs
5. Confuciusornis fossil plaque - 2.5 x 1 feet, with bird-like tail, suggesting it was one of the first birds
6. Psittacosaurus in dirt - 9 x 4 inches
7. Nest with 7 eggs - duckbill dinosaur eggs from Henan Province, China

Cretaceous Casts

1. Velociraptor - meat eater 7.25 feet long, 3.5 feet high. Vicious killer far smaller than made out in the movie Jurassic Park
2. 2 Feathered Dinosaurs, 3 feet high, 2 feet wide - New discoveries that show meat eating dinosaurs were very close to birds; Caudipteryx (has pom-pom like feathers on tail) and Sinosauropteryx.
3. Tsintaosaurus - planteater 26 feet long, 13 feet high - Large duckbill with odd unicorn-like crest
4. Protoceratops - 4 feet long by 2 feet high, an early relative of Triceratops of North America
5. Psittacosaurus - 4 feet long
6. Pachycephalosaur - 5.5 feet long, a dome-headed planteater known in Asia and North America
7. Psittacosaurus fossil plaque - 20 inches long
8. Nest with 7 eggs - touchable replica of fossil nest (above)

ANIMATRONICS

1. 45 foot Tarbosaurus
2. 20 foot Saurolophus
3. 15 foot Dilophosaurus
4. 10 foot Velociraptor
5. 5 foot Oviraptor
6. 3 foot Protoceratops

VIDEO:
6-minute film with animation on Chinese dinosaur discoveries, NOVA footage

INTERACTIVES:
8 by 12 foot dig pit with fossil casts, activity cart with touchable fossil casts, stamping and rubbing stations

SIGNAGE AND DÉCOR:
Abundant small scale and large size signage, 3 murals of time periods each 30 foot by 10 foot, plinths and bases, stanchions.