The Museum of Comparative Zoology is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural-history research museums at Harvard, whose pu
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Kronosaurus is an extinct genus of large short-necked pliosaur that lived during the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Australia. The first known specimen was received in
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…collections. Notable exhibits include whale skeletons, the largest turtle shell ever found (8 ft long), "the Harvard mastodon", a 42-foot (13 m) long Kronosaurus skeleton, the skeleton of a dodo, and a coelacanth preserved in fluid. The two-story Great Mammal Hall was renovated in 2009 in celebration of the 150th…
Kronosaurus queenslandicus QM F18827 proposed neotype
The holotype mandibular symphysis of K. queenslandicus (QM F1609)
Saturn Devouring His Son, artist's impression by Francisco de Goya, painted between 1820 and 1823, representing the Titan of the Greek mythology Kronos. Kronosaurus is named in reference to the latter for its large size and its possible ferocity reminiscent of the character
The mounted skeleton at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology historically attributed to Kronosaurus (MCZ 1285), sometimes nicknamed "Plasterosaurus", was reconstructed with an excessive number of vertebrae and inaccurate cranial proportions.