The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels): A tour by Ziggycardon

[ziggycardon]

Hi everyone 

Last Thursday I went to visit the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels as a little pre-birthday trip. 
I have visited this museum several times in the past few years, but this time I took my camera with me and thought it might be fun to do a photo tour of the museum for this forum  
Beware, this will be quite a big topic that might take a few days to complete as I took nearly 750 photo's in the museum (a lot will have to be sorted out though due to blurry quality, photo's of only name tags and doubles) as I wanted to show pretty much all fossil displays  
Especially the Hall of the Dinosaurs, the hall of the Mosasaurs & The Hall of Evolution will be quite complete tours  

 

Starting off with some snapshots of the hall of the minerals.

 

The meteorite display room

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

Those minerals look good  

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Mosasaurs...

[ziggycardon]

Part 2: 

Some snapshots of the Hall of Humankind

 

Cast of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)

 

Tooth of Ishango (Homo rudolfensis)

 

Paranthropus aethiopicus skull cast

 

Oldowan-tool

 

Paranthropus boisei skull casts

 

Homo georgicus skull cast

 

Homo georgicus skull cast of an elderly individual

 

Acheulean tools

 

Home ergaster skeleton cast (Turkana boy)

 

 

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Acheulean tools

 

The Spy Man (Homo neanderthalensis)

 

 

Mousterian tools

 

 

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

Haha yesterday I frame up my tickets and was thinking about my visits to this wonderful collection.

 

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4 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Haha yesterday I frame up my tickets and was thinking about my visits to this wonderful collection.

 

Haha how big are the odds that the day after I decided to do a tour of said museum  
Love the way you framed them btw!  

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Part 3: The Hall of the Dinosaurs

 

But I'll start off with the finds from the iguanodon mine in Bernissart (Belgium). 

The next fossils are all part of the fauna & flora that were found alongside the famous Iguanodons.

 

The holotype of Bernissartia fagesii, one of the smallest crocodyliforms that ever lived.

My girlfriend for scale

 

The fishes of Bernissart: 

1) Coccolepis macropterus

2) Lepidotes bernissartensis

3) Macromesodon bernissartensis

4) Callopterus insignis

5) Amiopsis dolloi

6) Aethalionopsis robustus

7) Pattersonella formosa

 

Phallanx from a theropod dinosaur

 

Chitracephalus dumonii

 

Above: the insect - Hylaeoneura lignei

Below: The salamander - Hylaeobatrachus croyi

 

Flora of Bernissart

 

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Protoceratops & Velociraptor skull replica's

 

Oviraptor skeleton replica

 

Vinctifer comptoni from the Santana formation in Brazil 

 

Multiple Cretaceous pinecones from Belgium

 

Diplodocus skeleton replica

 

Stegosaurus skeleton replica

 

Ankylosaurus skull & tail club cast

 

Parasaurolophus skull replica

 

Pachycephalosaurus skull replica

 

Maiasaura nest cast

 

Coelophysis skeleton cast

Eoraptor skeleton cast

Plateosaurus skull cast

 

 

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Huge Sauropod leg replica (Brachiosaurus?)

 

Multituberculata & Kryptobaatar casts

 

Tyrannosaurus rex Stan cast

 

Velociraptor skeleton cast

 

 

Hypsilophodon cast

 

Zalmoxes shqiperorum cast

 

Probactrosaurus gobiensis

 

Lurdusaurus cast

 

 

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Olorotitan cast

 

Amurosaurus riabinini cast

 

Triceratops cast

 

Mont-Dieu meteorite (France)

 

Plateosaurus engelhardti "Ben", found in 2007 in Frick, Switzerland (Triassic)

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Thanks for this, Ziggy, great photos and very interesting. 

I look forward to all the brachiopod pictures you'll be adding over the next few days.

[LordTrilobite]

Great photos! Thanks for posting these.

 

 

12 minutes ago, ziggycardon said:

Anatotitan cast

This is Amurosaurus riabinini, not Anatotitan.

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9 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Thanks for this, Ziggy, great photos and very interesting. 

I look forward to all the brachiopod pictures you'll be adding over the next few days.

I knew you were going to say that, so I've made sure that take photos of some of them in the Gallery of Evolution  

6 minutes ago, LordTrilobite said:

Great photos! Thanks for posting these.

 

 

This is Amurosaurus riabinini, not Anatotitan.

Thank you for the correction, wasn't really sure which one of the two it was.  

[Tidgy's Dad]

[LordTrilobite]

4 minutes ago, ziggycardon said:

Thank you for the correction, wasn't really sure which one of the two it was.  

Anatotitan is an old invalid name for Edmontosaurus. There seems to be an Edmontosaurus skull behind the Amurosaurus skeleton. So it probably refers to that.

[Troodon]

Very nice appreciate the photos

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Champosaurus lemoinei (57 mya), Erquelinnes, Belgium

 

Allopleuron hofmanni (68 mya), found in Belgium or the Netherlands

 

Crocodylus depressifrons (55 mya) found in Leval, Belgium

 

Mosasaurus lemonnieri skull (70 mya) found in Spiennes, Belgium

 

Plioplatecarpus houseaui (70 mya) found in Ciply, Belgium

 

Dimetrodon Cast

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Struthiomimus altus cast

 

Cryolophosaurus ellioti cast an Antarctic dinosaur from around 196 - 183 mya

 

Dinosaur footprints

 

Plateosaurus Ben

 

[ricardo]

Thanks! I really appreciate this tour in the museum.

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Aves indet. found in the Messel Quarry in Germany (48 mya)

 

Messelornis cristata found in the Messel Quarry in Germany (48 mya)

 

6) Hadrosauroidea indet.

7) Hadrosauroidea indet. cast found in Haute-Garonne in France (75 mya)

8) Ankylosauria indet. cast found in Vileveyrac in France (75 mya)

9) Ampelosaurus atacis cast found in Campagne-sur-Aude in France (75 mya)

10) Variraptor mechinorum cast found in Fox-Amphoux in France (75 mya)

 

Rhabdodon priscus cast found in Fox-Amphoux in France (75 mya)

 

Orthomerus dolloi (68 mya) found in Limburg, Belgium

 

Betasuchus bredai (68 mya) found in Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

Theropoda indet. found in Lonzée, Namur in Belgium (87 - 83 mya)

 

Orthomerus dolloi (68 mya) found in Limburg, Belgium

 

Protosphyraena ferox found in Ciply, Belgium (70 mya)

 

Saurocephalus intermedius found in Ciply, Belgium (70 mya)

 

Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis found in Liaoning in China (130 - 125 mya)

 

Ephemeropsis trisetalis found in Liaoning in China (130 - 125 mya)

 

Lycoptera sp. found in Liaoning in China (130 - 125 mya)

[Manticocerasman]

Lots of pictures Ken , was the new part of the museum already open ? The one on biodiversity? 
there is an event coming up In a month or so “BePaleo” are you coming to?

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Just now, Manticocerasman said:

Lots of pictures Ken , was the new part of the museum already open ? The one on biodiversity? 
there is an event coming up In a month or so “BePaleo” are you coming to?

Yepp, still a lot more to come  
Not yet, was kinda expecting it though, but apparently not yet. 
Unfortunatly I can't go to BePaleo, I was kinda excited when I read about it, but kinda bummed that it falls on the weekend of Elfia in Haarzuilens. I already promised Elise that we would go together, kinda our tradition.  

 

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Santana formation fishes (but I forget to take pictures if the ID tags )

 

Stenopterygius longifrons & S. hauffianus skulls found in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (183 mya)

 

Dapedium sp. found in Holzmaden in Germany (183 mya)

 

Ammonites found in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (183 mya)

 

Compsognathus cast found in Solnhofen, Germany

 

Pterosaur casts from the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany

Rhamphorhynchus munsteri 

Pterodactylus elegans

Scaphognathus crassirostris

 

That was all for today, in the next few days I shall continue with:

The Iguanodon cage, the gallery of the Mosasaurs, the hall of "250 years of Natural Sciences" and the Gallery of Evolution and Allosaurus Arkhane. 
Believe it or not but I only posted around 1/3 of what I have  

[Tidgy's Dad]

Thanks very much.

[FossilNerd]

My goodness! What a tour! Thanks for taking us along.