Shonisaurus was an upper Triassic Ichtyosaur from Northern Ameria that probably fit the ecological niche of today´s sperm whales. The fact that adult animals did not have teeth can as well lead to the conclusion that it could have been a plankton filtering animal.
Author: Libraraptor
- Hi, I am Stefan Schröder aka ‘Libraraptor’ and I am a faithful soul on both the Dinosaur Toy Blog and the Dinosaur Toy Forum since 2008, when I stumbled upon the forum looking for the Invicta blue whale in order to complete my Invicta collection. I found friendly people there and open ears and eyes for my growing collection. Later I began reviewing toys and figures here on the blog. I'm certainly not the most diligent reviewer, but when I do, I really enjoy reviewing a figure from my collection.
- I am so happy to still be a part of the big DTB / DTF family! In the meantime, I am one of two administrators of the forum belonging to this blog. Fortunately, both still enjoy great popularity in times of Instagram, TikTok and Co.
- I come from Germany, was born in 1977, I’m married and I have a daughter and a son. I am a full-time social worker, working at schools for children with special educational needs. In summer I take part in the dinosaur excavations in Balve which are led by the LWL-Museum für Naturkunde in Münster and enjoy finding bone or tooth fragments from the Lower Cretaceaous deposits of Germany.
- My collection is sometimes said to be somewhat quirky, I review what I like with no special goal or focus. I am mostly into vintage and monochrome figures and museum exclusives.
- Here’s a video (on the Dinotoyblog Youtube channel) showing my collection, it’s a little outdated, but still shows the main part of it.
- In 2024 I finally published my first book dealing with people´s passion for prehistory. If anyone is interested, you can order it
- HERE (US)
- HERE (UK)
- and HERE (Germany)
All reviews by this author
Review: Nodosaurid (Furkan)
4.3 (4 votes)
Out of the depths of my cabinets I dug out this odd Nodosaurid for you.
And it´s kind of strange for a review that I do neither know the exact species nor the origin of the figure. I bought it from ebay two or so years ago, that´s all I can say.
Review: Diatryma (Schleich)
3.4 (7 votes)
The Vintage Schleich Diatryma is a nice little figure to have! It is brightly coloured (although I know of monochrome ones being out there) and looks as if it is smiling at you. Looking at this figure, one can’t believe it was a more or less aggressive Eocene omnivore, lurking for prey in the Messel woods, not even avoiding small horses.
Review: Apatosaurus (“World Of Jura” by Goebel)
3.3 (6 votes)
Goebel is a well-known German company that produces porcelain dolls and figures for windowsills of old, boring housewives. In 1992 they (Goebel, not the housewives…) released respectively distributed four dinosaur figures. Apatosaurus´ comrades in this line were Styracosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus.
Goebel green and bright green (there is not that much variety in the paintjob of both the base and the animal) “World Of Jura” Apatosaurus is a special figure in many ways.
Review: Entelodont (AAA)
4 (9 votes)
Admittedly, there were lovelier animals to have walked the earth in prehistoric times than entelodonts, omnivorous beasts that were two metres tall and four metres long. Entelodonts were especially abundant in what are now Mongolia, China and Northern America and strolled through the landscape searching for any kind of food in the Eocene epoch – mainly probably carrion.
Review: Triceratops (Simba)
2 (5 votes)
Have you ever wondered where the name „greenhorn“comes from? Well, here is the answer. Just take a quick look at the head of this Simba Triceratops!
Simba is a German company producing and selling nearly every kind of toy. Their rubber dinosaurs are just a small section of their assortment.
Review: Plateosaurus (Bullyland mini)
3.7 (3 votes)
Edited by Dinotoyblog
A short review of a small dinosaur toy figure (this one is only 9 cm long and 3.5 cm tall). I really love dinosaur toys when they are of monochrome plainness. I also love small and detailed dinosaur toys. So, of course I love this little yellow fellow.
A short review of a small dinosaur toy figure (this one is only 9 cm long and 3.5 cm tall). I really love dinosaur toys when they are of monochrome plainness. I also love small and detailed dinosaur toys. So, of course I love this little yellow fellow.
Review: Spinophorosaurus by Bullyland (exclusively for the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig)
2.4 (7 votes)
Species
Spinophorosaurus nigerensis was a midsize sauropod that lived in what is now Nigeria in the middle Jurassic, about 170 million years ago. It resembled a small Brachiosaurid and belonged to a sister taxon of the Eusauropoda. It was 13 metres long.
Spinophorosaurus nigerensis was a midsize sauropod that lived in what is now Nigeria in the middle Jurassic, about 170 million years ago. It resembled a small Brachiosaurid and belonged to a sister taxon of the Eusauropoda. It was 13 metres long.
Review: Hesperornis (Primeval by Character Options)
4.3 (8 votes)
Hesperornis is an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds that lived during the late Cretaceous. Fossils have been found in Kansas and Canada. The first fossils had been dug out by Othniel C. Marsh himself during the famous “Bone Wars”. Hesperornis, a lesser-known discovery from that era, could reach 1,5m or even a little more in length.
Review: Mastodonsaurus (Bullyland)
4.7 (11 votes)
Mastodonsaurus (“breast tooth lizard”) was a Russian and European temnospondyl that belonged to a group of advanced, mostly Triassic amphibians called capitosaurids. It lived in swampy pools and fed mainly on fish, but probably did not avoid land living animals such as small early archosaurids.
Review: Compsognathus (alias “Velociraptor”) by Tchibo
1.4 (9 votes)
Tchi – what?!
Here we have a funny dinosaur figure. It´s funny and bizarre for at least six reasons. It´s not only its overall look. It´s also because
1. its manufacturer company is unknown and
2. it was distributed by coffee trading company Tchibo from Germany who
3.
Here we have a funny dinosaur figure. It´s funny and bizarre for at least six reasons. It´s not only its overall look. It´s also because
1. its manufacturer company is unknown and
2. it was distributed by coffee trading company Tchibo from Germany who
3.
Review: Deinonychus (Bullyland)
3.8 (8 votes)
Photographs by Lanthanotus, edited by Dinotoyblog
Reading Horridus´ great review of the vintage Carnegie Deinonychus trio, another Deinonychus figure came into my mind. A base? Non–feathered? Dynamic, Bakker-inspired pose? Wait, yes – it’s the Bullyland Deinonychus!
Reading Horridus´ great review of the vintage Carnegie Deinonychus trio, another Deinonychus figure came into my mind. A base? Non–feathered? Dynamic, Bakker-inspired pose? Wait, yes – it’s the Bullyland Deinonychus!