Leyster's Collection (updated 29/03/24)

[Halichoeres]

My favorite Pachycephalosaurus figure (and it's stiff competition; this genus is done well reasonably often). I think the release date was 2021, though!

[Concavenator]

That Pachycephalosaurus is part of my ever-growing PNSO wishlist (and well, general wishlist  ).

I think the release date was 2021, though!

It was, indeed.

[Leyster]

@Halichoeres thank you, I edited the post


Binomial name: Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Classification: Placentalia->Boreoeutheria->Laurasiatheria->Scrotifera->Ferungulata->Ferae->Carnivora->Feliformia->Felidae->Pantherinae
Time: Pleistocene - Recent
Formation: historically from Turkey to Russia, now restricted to eastern Russia, India, south-east Asia and Sumatra.
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2019
Sculptor: Shinobu Matsumura
Scale: 1:27 for an average specimen. It miiigh be 1:32 for an exceptionally large specimen (Brander, 1923).

[Leyster]

Since this very little known shark is trending due to a certain movie release...

Binomial name: Otodus megalodon (Agassiz, 1843)
Classification: Elasmobranchii->Euselachii->Neoselachii->Selachii->Galeomorphii->Lamniformes->Lamnoidea->Otodontidae
Time: Aquitanian? (early Miocene) to Zanclean (early Pliocene)
Formation: almost worldwide distribution.
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2016
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: good luck with extimating this! 

The one above is probably the most unquestionably accurate angle of the PNSO model you can get.

Over the years there have been many, many papers on the exact size and shape of this creature (which is way more famous than well known). I'm not overly impressed with the PNSO model (the heavily textured body goes against all I know about pelagic predators), but alas, I got it for a very small price so it's ok, I guess. I think their 2019 version is more accurate, but I'm trying to collect Cenozoic creatures more or less at the same scale and it'd look quite out of place. Even if around the 1:32 scale I'm collecting is on the smaller side of the extimates, it's still big enough to very well devour everything else on the 1:32 shelf.

Also our review of megatooth shark figures on Paleo-Nerd

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Ornithomimus edmontonicus (Russell, 1972)
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Coelurosauria->Tyrannoraptora->Maniraptoromorpha->Neocoelurosauria->Maniraptoriformes->Ornithomimosauria->Ornithomimidae
Time: Campanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Horseshoe Canyon Formation (present day Canada)
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2022
Sculptor: Sugaya Naka?
Scale: 1:30

[Halichoeres]

That Ornithomimus is the first Kaiyodo figure I bought in over 5 years! I'm pretty happy with it. Normally I am more interested in fish than theropods, but in this case I have an Ornithomimus in my collection but no megalodon...

[Leyster]

@Halichoeres well, given that you're even less a Cenozoic fauna collector than a theropod one, I think it's understandable 



Binomial name: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig, 1915
Classification:Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Thyreophora->Stegosauria->Stegosauridae
Time: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian (late Jurassic)
Formation: Middle-Upper Saurian Beds of the Tendaguru Formation (present-day Tanzania)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2016
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:41 for a smallish specimen, up to 1:60 for the largest one

[Concavenator]

I was surprised to read that the more likely positioning of the side spikes of Kentrosaurus might have been the hips, rather than the shoulders as is usually depicted:

http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/04/kentrosaurus-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html
https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?msg=92311

That PNSO mini looks nice. A bit too small for me though, hopefully somebody will make a new, larger one. If nobody tackles the job, then there will be the BotM/Cyberzoic one, at least.

[Leyster]

@Concavenator it is probably not as likely as the shulder spike. First, all stegosaurs with articulated spikes have them on the shoulder. Secod, it's true that Kentrosaurus has a depression on the hip, but it's not unique to Kentrosaurus and I can't see why an osteoderm (a structure derived from the derma) should anchor to its hips.

[Halichoeres]

@Halichoeres well, given that you're even less a Cenozoic fauna collector than a theropod one, I think it's understandable 

Well, it's partly that and partly my annoyance with endless megalodon figures when so many sharks are known from good remains and actually looked different from a souped-up great white.

[Concavenator]

L @Leyster Thank you for the insight!

[Leyster]

@Halichoeres I agree. Paleozoic was full of cool chondrichthyes that never get enough representation.

@Concavenator my pleasure



Binomial name: Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758
Classification:Placentalia->Boreoeutheria->Laurasiatheria->Scrotifera->Ferungulata->Ferae->Carnivora->Caniformia->Canoidea->Arctoidea->Ursida->Ursoidea->Ursidae
Time: Calabrian (Pleistocene)-Recent
Formation: historically much of the northern hemisphere, including the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Nowadays their range is much more restricted.
Manifacturer and date of release: Kitan Club, 2013
Sculptor: KOW
Scale: 1:32 for an Hokkaido bear (which this figure represent, being part of the "Nature of Japan" series)

Never though I'd find a brand with perhaps better quality than Kaiyodo, but happy to be corrected

A comparison with one of the biggest theropods around (one sadly very underrated and poorly known) in the same scale, just to emphasize the difference between the size dinosaurs can attain thanks to their adaptations.


Of course inspired by this picture, which aged like milk:


I'm afraid that "cunning and long-lasting energy" are not enough 

[Concavenator]

"Who would win?" Whenever I see this question asked anywhere, I can't help but come in and start counterattacking with stuff like: "At chess?", "At table tennis?". That question is more overrated than Tyrannosaurus itself. 

[Halichoeres]

Kitan Club figures are really gorgeous, I keep hoping they'll get into prehistorics.

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Nannopterygius enthekiodon (Hulke, 1871)
Classification: Ichthyosauromorpha->Ichthyosauriformes->Ichthyopterygia->Eoichthyosauria->Ichthyosauria->Hueneosauria->Longipinnati->Merriamosauria->Neoichthyosauria->Thunnosauria->Ophthalmosauridae->Ophthalmosaurinae
Time: Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic)
Formation: Kimmeridge Clay Formation (present-day UK)
Manifacturer and date of release: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Sculptor: PNSO, 2016
Scale: 1:38


Despite being identified as Ophthalmosaurus, to me the proportions of the PNSO mini look more closely matching Nannopterygius, expecially in flipper size.

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Lingwulong shenqi Xu et al. 2018
Classification: Dinosauria->Sauropodomorpha->Bagualosauria->Massopoda->Sauropodiformes->Sauropoda->Eusauropoda->Neosauropoda->Diplodocoidea->Diplodocimorpha->Flagellicaudata->Dicraeosauridae
Time: Bathonian-Callovian (Middle Jurassic)
Formation: Zhiluo Formation (present day China)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2022
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:32, apparently, but involved a lot of eyeballing from the skeletal so don't @ me.

[Concavenator]

That's a very nice figure, but whenever PNSO returns to sauropods (if that ever happens), hopefully they won't have exposed teeth, they look even worse than theropods do as such imo. Well, the new Yangchuanosaurus shows they've changed their thoughts on that particular aspect, at least.

[SidB]

That's a very nice figure, but whenever PNSO returns to sauropods (if that ever happens), hopefully they won't have exposed teeth, they look even worse than theropods do as such imo. Well, the new Yangchuanosaurus shows they've changed their thoughts on that particular aspect, at least.

Let's hope consistently.

[Halichoeres]

Yeah, this was definitely one of the more difficult figures to estimate the scale of, among PNSO's recent releases. I got a similar number but with pretty low confidence.

That's a very nice figure, but whenever PNSO returns to sauropods (if that ever happens), hopefully they won't have exposed teeth, they look even worse than theropods do as such imo. Well, the new Yangchuanosaurus shows they've changed their thoughts on that particular aspect, at least.

The exposed teeth are a weird look. At least sauropod heads are small, so you only see the exposed teeth up close!

[ceratopsian]

My thoughts exactly.  They aren't visible from my study chair and truth to tell I'd forgotten about them till now.

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The exposed teeth are a weird look. At least sauropod heads are small, so you only see the exposed teeth up close!