Classification: Ornithopod

Review: Ouranosaurus (Battat)

4.9 (20 votes)

Despite the distinctive and unusual appearance of the sail-backed Ouranosaurus, it is rather rare in toy form. When it comes to iguanodontids, most companies tend to opt for the more generic and more familiar Iguanodon. Starlux, Schleich and CollectA have produced replicas of this fascinating species as well (review of the Schleich Ouranosaurus here), but the Battat figure is by far and away the superior figure.

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Review: Ouranosaurus (Replica-Saurus by Schleich)

Genus: Ouranosaurus Brand: Schleich Classification: Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.9 (11 votes)

The 24 foot Ouranosaurus was an interesting ornithopod from Early Cretaceous Africa, where it coexisted with the fish-eating theropod Suchomimus. Its name means “brave lizard”, and some distinguishing traits of Ouranosaurus were its thumb spikes and the elongated neural spines of its back.

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Review: Maiasaura (original sculpt) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Maiasaura Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4 (12 votes)

The Late Cretaceous hadrosaur Maiasaura has become famous for being the first large dinosaur to be discovered alongside direct evidence that it cared for its young. Fossil nests associated with this dinosaur show that young dinosaurs stayed in the nest well after hatching.

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Review: Parasaurolophus (Battat)(Boston Museum of Science)

Genus: Parasaurolophus Brand: Battat Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.9 (16 votes)

Review by Dan Liebman, Photos by Mat Hockett
No dinosaur figure collection is complete without Parasaurolophus. While some may outclass her in a popularity contest, she is certainly the most well-known of all hadrosaurs. Her signature crest provides instant recognition, and this reconstruction for the Battat line includes a rarely-depicted stretch of skin running from the crest to the neck.

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Review: Tsintaosaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Tsintaosaurus Brand: CollectA, Procon Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.7 (16 votes)

Available from Amazon.com here.
Tsintaosaurus was a duck-billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur, that lived in China about 84 to 71 million years ago. Like many Lambeosaurs, Tsintaosaurus is believed to have sported a fancy crest on its head. In this case, the crest is a skinny rod that stuck out above of the dinosaur’s face much like a mythical unicorn’s horn.

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Review: Iguanodon (Bullyland)(2010 Version)

Genus: Iguanodon Brand: Bullyland Classification: Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.2 (10 votes)

Perhaps best known for their prehistoric mammals, Bullyland of Germany has been taking gradual steps to improve their line of dinosaur figures. Few figures exemplify this better than their latest version of Iguanodon, released in 2010.

Happily plodding on all fours, this gentle giant actually treads in the realm of action figures with an articulated left forearm.

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Review: Edmontosaurus (UKRD)

Genus: Edmontosaurus Brand: UKRD Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.1 (20 votes)

The blog’s gone all grown-up recently with resin kits and limited-edition statues – leave it to me to lower the tone and introduce a mere toy. What we have here, then, is what is known among collectors as a ‘Chinasaur’ – cheaply made and featuring little more identification than ‘Made in China’.

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Review: Deinosuchus vs. Parasaurolophus Diorama (Dinosauria by Sideshow)

Genus: Deinosuchus, Parasaurolophus Brand: Sideshow Collectibles Classification: Crocodile, Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Desktop Model

3.2 (15 votes)

Review by Dan Liebman of DansDinosaurs.com
Photos by Jeremy Killian
The fifth entry in Sideshow’s Dinosauria line features a predation scene like many others, yet with only a single true dinosaur. Deinosuchus vs. Parasaurolophus looks to be an almost classical depiction of violence in the natural world, the massive jaws of a monstrous crocodilian clamping down on a hapless creature that was presumably ambushed while drinking at the water’s edge.

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Review: Hypacrosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Hypacrosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.5 (17 votes)

Guest review by forumite Rugops
Safari has done a wonderful job of bringing us this obscure dinosaur. This is probably one of their best hadrosaur models.

The body of this hadrosaur is well designed, and is very accurate except on a few details.

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Review: Iguanodon (Kleinwelka)

Genus: Iguanodon Brand: Kleinwelka Classification: Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine, Monochrome

4.9 (8 votes)

Review and photos by ChemaV, edited by Plesiosauria

The Saurierpark (http://www.saurierpark.de/saurierpark.asp) is built on the grounds of a botanic garden, located in Kleinwelka, a subdivision of the city of Bautzen in Germany. In 1977 a large series of life sized dinosaurs were built out of steel and concrete.

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Review: Parasaurolophus (Papo)

Genus: Parasaurolophus Brand: Papo Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.6 (23 votes)

Until the release of their Allosaurus, Papo’s prehistorics garnered attention mainly for being remarkable facsimiles of their Jurassic Park counterparts. However, even before Papo’s own Big Al hit the scene the company had released a sculpt not obviously based on a JP creature – this often-overlooked Parasaurolophus (dated 2005) at about 1:35 scale.

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Review: Maiasaura (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Maiasaura Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.6 (15 votes)

The discovery and description of fossil hadrosaur nesting grounds in the Cretaceous of North America provided some of the best evidence for parental care in dinosaurs. The association of fossils at the so-called ‘egg mountain’ site in Montana included eggs, babies and adults of a single species of dinosaur; crushed egg shells indicated that the babies spent time in the nest after hatching and were probably looked after by adults of the same species.

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