Having already covered two of the line’s highlights with the Edaphosaurus and Eryops it’s time to look at one of the more mundane toys in Diener’s series of rubber erasers, the Dimetrodon. Like the two previously reviewed toys the Dimetrodon hails from the Red Beds of Texas, which makes in a fitting toy to round out this trio, but since...
Edaphosaurus was a sail-backed genus of synapsid that lived during the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods in what is now the famous Texas Red Beds in North America. Remains have also been found in West Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Fragmentary remains found in Germany have also been attributed to Edaphosaurus. The Texas Red Beds are also known...
If you grew up between the 1960’s and 1990’s you no doubt had at least a few Diener brand erasers in your toybox or backpack. They were ubiquitous through the latter half of the 20th century. Launching in 1955 with Disney themed pencil-top erasers, Diener Industries would go on to produce novelty erasers representing all manner of animals, mythological creatures,...
