A trip to the Natural History Museum in Paris

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Last month I made a trip to Paris, and ofcourse a visit to the Museum of Natural History had to be included!

 

A gorgeous museum especially due to it's antique style, it's also one of the oldest natural history musea in the world.

 

 

 

Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)

 

 

Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica)

 

 

Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

 

 

Short Beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

 

 

Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus sp.)

 

 

Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)

 

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Desert Monitor (Varanus griseus)

 

Bichir and Gar

 

 

Coelacanth

 

 

Two Toed Sloth (Choloepus didactylus)

 

 

Three Toed Sloth (Bradypus torquatus)

 

 

 

 

Tapir

 

 

 

Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)

 

 

Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus)

 

 

White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum)

 

 

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And ofcourse what we are all here for: the paleontology floor!

 

 

Titanochelon perpiniana found in Serrat d'en Vaquer, Perpignan, France - Pliocene

 

 

 

 

 

Prodeinotherium bavaricum jaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brachypotherium brachypus found in Artenay, Loiret, France - Miocene, Burdigalian, 20,4 - 15,9 mya

 

 

Diaceratherium aurelianensis found in Neuville-aux-Bois, Loiret, France - Miocene, Burdigalian, 20,4 -15,9 mya

Gomphotherium angustidens found in Loiret, France - Miocene, Burdigalian, 20,4 -15,9 mya

 

 

Diaceratherium aurelianense found in Neuville-aux-Bois, Loiret, France - Miocene, Burdigalian, 18 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tortoise eggs found in Saint-Gérard-le-Puy, Allier, France - Oligocene/Miocene 25 - 23 mya

 

 

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Bird egg found in Saint-Gérard-le-Puy, Allier, France - Oligocene/Miocene 25 - 23 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coryphodon oweni found in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France - Eocene, Ypresian, 55,8 - 48 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lots of material from the Gobi desert in Mongolia

 

 

 

 

Compsognathus longipes

 

 

 

 

Compsognathus longipes found in Portlandian ithographic limestone, Canjuers, near Nice, France - Jurassic, Tithonian, 150 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ichthyornis dispar found in Kansas, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Unenlagia comahuensis found in La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina - Cretaceous, 97 - 92 mya

 

 

Madagascar sauropods

 

 

Sarcosuchus imperator found in the Elrhaz Formation, Gadaoufa, Tenere Desert, Niger - Cretaceous, Albian, 112 mya

 

 

Tylosaurus found in Trego County, Kansas, USA  - Cretaceous, 86,5 -75 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hypacrosaurus stebingeri juvenile found in Devil's Canyon, Alberta, Canada - Cretaceous, Campanian, 77,5 - 76,5 mya

 

 

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus material from the Kem Kem Beds in Morocco - Cretaceous, Cenomanian, 95 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[grandpa]

Wow, that museum alone would be worth planning a trip to Paris. Thanks for sharing that!

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4 hours ago, grandpa said:

Wow, that museum alone would be worth planning a trip to Paris. Thanks for sharing that!

You're welcome but still lot's more to come, I am only through 1/3 of the photo's

And yes I agree, I am not really a big Paris lover, so when my mother really wanted to go together, visiting the museum was my only condition

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The Spinosaurus showcase

 

 

 

 

Eryops megacephalus

 

 

Bradysaurus skeleton

 

Scutosaurus skull

 

 

 

 

Tarbosaurus death pose

 

 

 

 

 

Diplodocus

 

 

Lystrosaurus murrayi

 

 

 

 

 

Sarcosuchus imperator

 

 

Nanotyrannus

 

 

The holotype of Mosasaurus hoffmanni

 

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Haven't been there yet, but this looks pretty amazing! Thanks for having taken us along!

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What an amazing collection!  I also kind of like just seeing a whole lot of specimens, instead of the modern trend of just a few skeletons with most of the space taken up by "habitat".  Curious that there aren't any invertebrates or plants, though.   Maybe they are still coming?

 

Thanks for showing us around!!

 

Don

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2 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

What an amazing collection!  I also kind of like just seeing a whole lot of specimens, instead of the modern trend of just a few skeletons with most of the space taken up by "habitat".  Curious that there aren't any invertebrates or plants, though.   Maybe they are still coming?

 

Thanks for showing us around!!

 

Don

There are 3 floors in the museum:
Ground floor: Taxidermy/modern animals

1st floor: Vertebrate fossils

2nd floor: invertebrate and plant fossils (though due to time constraints, I haven't made any photographs here (though I went quickly over the collection myself)
But yes, lot's more pictures to come

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Uintatherium

 

 

Carnotaurus

 

 

Triceratops

 

 

Diaceratherium lemanense found in Gannat, Allier, France - Miocene, 23 mya

 

 

Stephanorhinus etruscus found in Senèze, Haute-Loire, France - 3,6 mya - 800 000 years old

 

 

Dihoplus megarhinus found in Montpellier, Hêrault, France - Pliocene, 5,3 - 3,6 mya

 

 

Hoploaceratherium tetradactylum found in Sansan, France - Miocene, 15 mya

 

 

Wooly rhino

 

 

Arsinoitherium

 

 

Chilotherium persiae found in Iran - Miocene, 8 mya

 

 

Chilotherium sp. found in China - Miocene, 8 mya

 

Limnoscelis paludis found in New Mexico, USA - Permian, 290 mya

 

 

 

 

 

Diplocynodon ratelli found in Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, Allier, France - Miocene, 20 - 15 mya

 

 

Steneosaurus heberti found in Falaises de Vaches Noires, Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France - Jurassic, 162 mya

 

 

Mastodonsaurus giganteus

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Carnotaurus

 

 

Stenopterygius quadriscissus found in Holzmaden, Germany - Jurassic, 183 - 171 mya

 

 

Iguanodon bernissartensis found in Bernissart, Belgium - Cretaceous, 126 - 124 mya

 

 

Cryptoclidus oxoniensis found in the Oxford Clay, UK - Jurassic

 

 

Pelagosaurus typus found in Curcy, Calvados, France - Jurassic, 180 mya

 

 

 

Dutuitosaurus ouazzoui found in the Timezgadiouine Formation, Argana Basin, Atlas Mountains, Morocco - Triassic, 237 - 227 mya

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Platecarpus corypheus found in Kansas, USA - Cretaceous, 83,3 - 72,1 mya

 

 

Palaeophis colossaeus found in Mali - Eocene

 

 

Plesiotypotherium found in Bolivia - Miocene

 

 

Dunkleosteus skull

 

 

Dunkleosteus found in Erfoud, Hammar Lagdad, Morocco - Devonian, 370 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Temnodontosaurus burgundidae skull found in Sainte-Colombe, Yonne, France - Jurassic, Toarcian, 183 - 174 mya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thalassocnus natans

 

 

 

 

 

Glyptodon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Moeritherium hyonsi skull

 

 

 

Phiomia serridens skull

 

 

 

Deinotherium skull

 

 

Choerolophodon skull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deinotherium

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gompotherium angustidens

 

 

Gompotherium angustidens

 

 

Wooly Mammoth

 

 

 

 

 

Palaeoloxodon recki

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Mammuthus meridionalis & Mammuthus primigenius

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primates

1) Plesiadapis tricuspidens - Paleocene of France

2) Arcius rougieri - Eocene of France

3) Cantius trigonodus - Eocene of Wyoming, USA

4) Notharctus tenebrosus - Eocene of Wyoming, USA

5) Donrussellia provincialis - Eocene of France

6) Teilhardina belgica - Eocene of Belgium

7) Nannopithex zuccolae - Eocene of France

8) Protoadapis curvicuspidens - Eocene of France

9) Pronycticebus gaubryi - Eocene of France

10) Necrolemur major - Eocene of France

11) Adapis sp. -  Eocene of France

12) Adapis sp. - Eocene of France

13) Leptadapis sp. - Eocene of France

14) Leptadapis magnus - Eocene of France

15) Xanthorhysis tabruni - Eocene of China

16) Eosimias centennicus - Eocene of China

17) Amphipithecus mogaungensis - Eocene of Myanmar

18) Pondaungia cotteri - Eocene of Myanmar

19) Simonsius grangeri - Oligocene of Egypt

20) Catopithecus browni - Eocene of Egypt

21) Moeripithecus markgrafi - Oligocene of Oman

22) Aegyptopithecus zeuxis - Oligocene of Egypt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giant Lemur - Megaladapis edwardsi

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Giant Sloth & Glyptodon fossils

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diprotodon

 

 

Mammuthus primigenius

 

 

 

 

 

Mammuthus meridionalis

 

 

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Archaeobelodon filholi found in Sansan, France - Miocene

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That were all my photo's of the museum (did lost a couple near the end of the tour it seems)
But this was pretty much the entire vertebrate fossil section minus a couple of showcases.
There is also a floor with the invertebrate fossils and plant fossils but I dind't make much photo's there and the ones I did are gone unfortunately.

But I hoped you all enjoyed the tour!

Edited November 3, 2023 by ziggycardon