Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- 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
- 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.
- Summary
- 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).
- 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
- 1926
- Standard number
- MNH-4886B
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Interior; Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Dinosaurs
- Fishes
- Fossils
- Laboratories
- Museum buildings
- Museum--employees
- Plesiosaurus
- Paleontology
- Ray-finned bony fish
- Reptiles, Fossil
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Specimens
- Storage
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7373
