Sizing Up Our Dinosaur Collection Part 3: What Scale is the Regaliceratops (2018) from Safari Ltd.
The third in an occasional series in which I explore the scale of the miniature figures in my prehistoric animal collection.
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Dunkleosteus (2007) figure from Safari Ltd.
Using length to calculate scale.
Dunkleosteus (2007) figure from Safari Ltd.
With this in mind, using my method I have concluded that the Safari Ltd 2018 Regaliceratops figure is approximately 1/25th the size of the holotype specimen TMP . This means that the life-size animal was approximately 25 times larger than the Safari Ltd figure, giving the Regaliceratops miniature a scale of 1:25 when compared to the museum specimen.
CD Scale Sheet for Dunkleosteous (2007) from Safari Ltd.
It is worth noting, nearly twenty years on from it's original release, the Safari Ltd figure, while dramatically different in silhouette from the most recent extrapolations is very similar in length.
Regaliceratops in the wild
Wikipedia - "Dunkleosteus".
Engelman, Russell K. (2023). "A Devonian Fish Tale: A New Method of Body Length Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)".
University of Michigan Online Repository of Fossils. "View online 3D model of CMNH 5768".
Posted on 24-04-06 by Stunt Kitty Films in dinosaurs
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