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Carnegie Safari 1988 - 2015

Safari Ltd Carnotaurus figures

The Carnegie Museum has a long-lived partnership with Safari Ltd. The museum proposes the figures to be released each year. There is a criterion for a dinosaur becoming a Carnegie Safari figure. The figure needs to be reconstructed from fossil finds that include a majority of features and preferably a range of individuals. Specimens from the museum are favored.  No species based only on teeth or vertebrae. Very few dinosaurs are known from complete skeletons. Carnotaurus is known from a complete articulated skeleton lacking only the hind feet and end of the tail. It has a close, smaller, relative, Aucasaurus, known from two articulated skeletons. Skin impressions representative of nearly the entire body length have been found. The original Carnotaurus figure was released in 1985 and was due for an upgrade. The distinct horns above the eyes have made it a recognizable figure for the public. While it is mentioned in the Jurassic Park (JP) novel as one of the dinosaurs reconstructed, it does not appear in any of the movies. It was released by Hasbro as a JP toy. The black and red Demon is a rare collectable. There was also a later version. The Disney Dinosaur animation featured Carnotaurus, and generated a number of replicas. Most suffered from a tendency to make the skull short and round like a bulldog. The 2011 figure is larger than the 1985 release. It was an Allosaurus-sized animal, preying on medium sized saltasaurine sauropods and the duck bills that had migrated to South America in the final part of the Cretaceous. The skin is covered with rows of bumps that are especially distinct on the spine. There are two short arms with four clawless fingers. The skull is short, but V-shaped like a hatchet. The lower jaw is lightly built and the mouth is agape, displaying teeth and tongue. The face is red, as if covered in blood. The tail is flexed, as if wagging side to side, and held above the ground. The base color is a corpse-like gray that darkens to black above the waterline. There are patches of ocher along the back to break the silhouette. The differences with the 1985 figure are the bipedal stance, color, level of detailing and size. The horns are larger and splayed to the side.  

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Dinosaurs O thru S
Carnegie Oviraptor Carnegie Oviraptor Carnegie Pachycephalosaurus Carnegie Pachycephalosaurus
Carnegie Parasaurlophus Carnegie Parasaurlophus Carnegie Parasaurlophus Carnegie Plateosaurus
Carnegie Pteranodon Carnegie Quetzalcoatlus Carnegie Quetzalcoatlus Carnegie Saltasaurus
Carnegie Sinraptor Carnegie Smilodon Carnegie Spinosaurus Carnegie Spinosaurus
Carnegie Spinosaurus Carnegie Stegosaurus Carnegie Stegosaurus Carnegie Stegosaurus
Carnegie Styracosaurus      

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