Retrosaur Collection

Vintage Art, Corny Movie Depictions, and downright hilarious Plastic Figurines

[retrosaurs]

Retrosaur - vintage outdated dinosaur designs

Slurpasaur - live reptile posing as a dinosaur in media

Chinasaur - plastic toy depictions of "dinosaurs"

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Disclaimer:

None of these images are mine.

• Sources will be posted when I'm able to find them.

• None of these dinosaurs are accurate, should be obvious!!!

• I didn't coin these terms, its just what the public picked.

• Not all the creatures are representative of the clade Dinosauria.

[earlypalaeoart]

"Le mégathérium (période pliocène de l'Amérique du Sud)" [Megatherium (Pliocene period of South America)] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886), after Figuier, 1863

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f755.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"Forme et grandeur probables de l'atlantosaure le plus grand des animaux qui aient jamais existé (longueur: 35 mètres)." ["Probable shape and size of the Atlantosaurus, the largest animal that ever existed (length: 35 meters)"] by Jules Blanadet, from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f591.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"L'emersion du sol de la Manche a la fin de la periode jurassique, et ses principaux habitants. Marsupiaux, iguanodons, pterodactyles, au milieu des fougeres" ["The emergence of the English Channel seabed at the end of the Jurassic period, and its main inhabitants: marsupials, iguanodons, pterodactyls, amidst the ferns."], from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f567.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"Les ammonites des mers triassiques" ["The ammonites of the Triassic seas"] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f533.item

[retrosaurs]

I love the upward facing ammonites

[earlypalaeoart]

"Tous ces etres qui ont precede l'homme et qui sortent aujourd'hui de leurs tombeaux ne semblent-ils pas des monstres? Pourtant ils sont rattaches a nous par des liens originels" ["Do not all these beings who preceded man and who are now emerging from their tombs seem like monsters? Yet they are connected to us by primal ties"] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f113.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"En appuyant leure pattes sur une de nos plus hautes maisons, ils auraient pu manger au balcan d'un cinquième étage…" ["By placing their paws on one of our tallest houses, they could have eaten on the balcony of a fifth floor..."] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f37.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"Au lieu de Paris, c'était la mer… des ptérodactyles aux larges ailes sautaient dans le ciel." ["Instead of Paris, it was the sea... pterodactyls with broad wings were jumping in the sky."] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f24.item

[earlypalaeoart]

Frontispiece for Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f12.item

[earlypalaeoart]

'Tanninim of the Fifth Day - restorations of Mesozoic reptiles' from Nature and the Bible by John William Dawson (1875), after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Cope (1869) and Dawson (1873)

https://archive.org/details/naturebiblecours01daws/page/n139/mode/1up

[earlypalaeoart]

Camarasaurus from Charles Frederick Holder's children's book Marvels of animal life (1885)

The earliest sauropod life reconstruction that I'm aware of.

https://archive.org/details/marvelsofanimall00holdrich/page/n196/mode/1up

[earlypalaeoart]

'Mammoths, Monsters and Mastodons! In the Great Forepaugh Show!'

Adam Forepaugh Circus Advertising Card, Buffalo, NY, 1870s

https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/ht5000103

[jpnostalgia]

PlaySkool inosaurs! 80s Toy Commercials

[jpnostalgia]

Italian Jurassic Park /// Merch commercial

[jet-grind]

[jpnostalgia]

The Lost Word: Jurassic Park 

arcade 1997 Japan

[earlypalaeoart]

Teleosaurus by Édouard Riou from Chatterbox Magazine, 1880, pg. 68

https://archive.org/details/chatterbox-1880/page/68/mode/1up

[mariolanzas]

EVOLUTION OF PALEOART 

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