Dino Day at the NJ State Museum

[Griffin]

Went to help my friend with his table at the event today. Took lots of pics.



Our table. Covered in Dryptosaurus stuff.



The logo for Project Dryptosaurus was done by the amazing Brett Booth.






Casts of Drypto bones. Except for that pelvis...its from an Allosaur. Don't know why they threw that in there.





Dryptosaurus tooth and toe bone from a private collector's collection






This guy had a table with BEAUTIFUL fossils of small animals from China. He also wrote a book about them.






Two halves of a Salamander

Dino teeth





This fossil he bought from a street vendor...for the equivalent of 6 US dollars. Its a beautifully preserved dinosaur feather with a fish.




Our friend John collects trace fossils. Some of these are from that quarry in Clifton NJ they are going to build town houses on top of.







Giant Moose-elk from the ice age.


Us and Stan. Thats me with the Triceratops shirt

[stoneage]

Did John do the paintings in front of the window?

[Griffin]

The ones of the feathered dinosaurs? I have no idea who did those.

[dinoguy2]

May 8, 2011 3:37:42 GMT Griffin said:

The ones of the feathered dinosaurs? I have no idea who did those.

I've seen those paintings in a lot of places, specially the Confuciusornis pair on the left (with unfortunately inaccurate tail feathering). I think some appear in Luis Chiappe's book on Mesozoic birds (maybe?), will have to look up the artist when I get chance.

[Griffin]

Yeah the caudiopteryx and psittacosaurus seem to have been ripped off of other works as well in those paintings. But he had them up basically because they showcase pretty much everything that has been found in that area.

[Himmapaan]

Brilliant!

I actually gasped aloud at that beautiful feather fossil with the fish.

[Godzillasaurus]

This is very cool!!! Wish I knew I would have made the trip down.