Earliest Large Theropod Mount

[Russell Engelman]

Hey, quick question. I thought just occurred to me, what, if anything, was the first major mountain skeleton of a large theropod in the world? I know a big deal has been made about the famous 1915 Tyrannosaurus rex mount at the AMNH, but I would assume some museum somewhere had tried to mount an Allosaurus skeleton before that. I know mounts weren't common in the Marsh and Cope era, but surely somebody tried to after they were gone.

[Tyler Greenfield]

The earliest mounted skeleton of a large theropod seems to be an Allosaurus fragilis (AMNH 5753) mounted in 1907 (see Beasley, 1907 and Gilmore, 1920).

On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 4:06 PM Russell Engelman <neovena...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, quick question. I thought just occurred to me, what, if anything, was the first major mountain skeleton of a large theropod in the world? I know a big deal has been made about the famous 1915 Tyrannosaurus rex mount at the AMNH, but I would assume some museum somewhere had tried to mount an Allosaurus skeleton before that. I know mounts weren't common in the Marsh and Cope era, but surely somebody tried to after they were gone.

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[Thomas Richard Holtz]

Allosaurus fragilis at the AMNH (AMNH 5735) was the first freestanding theropod mount in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosaurus#/media/File:AMNH_Allosaurus.jpg

There were some isolated Allosaurus legs mounted in 1899: https://www.instagram.com/amnh/p/C-u9hVjO3mA/ 

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[Ben Creisler]

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The American Museum Journal, January 1908, has an article about the Allosaurus mount, by William D. Matthew, starts on page 3

https://books.google.com/books?id=cEpTZJ9sFxUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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[Deinonychus47]

Photograph of the skeletal mount of Allosaurus specimen AMNH 5753, from William Diller Matthew's 1915 Dinosaurs (there attributed to Henry Fairfield Osborn). This particular version is taken from the Project Gutenberg e-book. This photo was taken in 1915.

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[Richard W. Travsky]

I was kind of interested in that Charles Knight model of an Allosaurus compared with a horse in the Beasley 1907 citation. Did this and his other models survive? I did come across this page

 

https://donglutsdinosaurs.com/dinosaur-models-from-drumheller/

 

““Clones” of two famous dinosaur sculptures made during the early part of the 20th Century, purchased during the 1980s in a drugstore in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The Allosaurus was sculpted by Charles R. Knight for display at Dinosaur National Monument…”

 

which sorta implies that casts (or something like that) were made. Didn’t find much else on the models. There was a Facebook page but as I don’t have a Facebook account and refuse to make one…