A History of Prehistoric Toys

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Hello members of the Dinosaur Toy Forum! I'm working on a project which includes discussion on pop culture representations of prehistory. It's relatively easy to find information on novels, movies, and other such media, but the topic of dinosaur toys (and of course other prehistoric animals) seems unfortunately understudied.
Do any of you know much about the history of Prehistoric Toys? Does anybody know what the first prehistoric themed toy was? What company made it, and when? Who were the early big names in dinosaur toys?
I know a few bits and pieces myself, but I don't know exactly where they fit in, so I welcome any and all information anybody has to share, even if its relatively recent history! I'm most interested in earlier stuff, but Battat, Carnegie, and the like are fair game as well.
For the sake of my bibliography, please include any sources and citations you can! If you are able to direct me to any more "official" sources of information, I would greatly appreciate that as well.
If no equivalent board exists, this topic can serve as a general discussion of the History of Prehistoric Toys.

[sauroid]

these resources might be able to help you:
the dinosaur collectors' site
http://www.dinosaurcollectorsitea.com/updates.html
Don Glut's website as well as his books
http://www.donglutsdinosaurs.com/
and the Dinosauriana disc (this one is an exhaustive ref guide)
http://demarxo.com/book/

[Sim]

There's a lot of information on less recent prehistoric figures at Realm of Rubber Dinosaurs: http://rubberdinosaurs.org/

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

These references are very helpful, thank you! If anybody has some favorite toy lines that somehow didn't make it into any of these resources, let me know!