Poll: What Kinds of Prehistoric Animals are the Focus of your Collection?

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

What prehistoric animals do you collect? I noticed some members only collect dinosaurs, while a lot of us are more generalized and have everything from trilobites to mammoths in our collections. Which option best describes your collection?

Personally, I enjoy figures from any time period, and more recently I've been more interested in invertebrates and mammals than dinosaurs.

[suspsy]

I collect all manner of prehistoric fauna.

[PhilSauria]

I collect any prehistoric animals but the main focus is Sauropods, of which I have 57 at present. That tally would be higher if I collected any and all long-necked specimens but even being slightly more particular I have managed to amass quite a herd.

[Faelrin]

I try to collect any prehistoric creature figures I like (from the ancient Anomalocaris to the mighty Mastodon), though dinosaurs are obviously represented the most in my assorted collection, and dromaeosaurids (thanks to JW and BotM) make up the most of them.

[Shonisaurus]

I like any type of prehistoric animal and even extinct prehistoric animals and unfortunately recently disappeared such as the thylacine, quagga or the marble-tipped woodpecker to give three examples.

[MLMjp]

Mesozoic creatures, mostly dinosaurs, Pterosaurs and marine reptiles. But occasionally I get something from other periods, like Dunkleosteus or C. megalodon

[IrritatorRaji]

Dinosaurs, mainly therapods

[Ravonium]

I voted 'Any Prehistoric Animals', but my collection is overwhelmingly Mesozoic (and overwhelmingly carnivores, at that).

[tyrantqueen]

Preferably dinosaurs, but I will also dabble in avians/reptiles/fish/insects if I have the spare money and I like the sculpt.

I don't bother with most prehistoric mammals (but I do have an extant/extinct canid collection, because I am a big dog/canid lover).

[Jose S.M.]

I've only collected dinosaurs so far, but I'm going to start with other kinds of prehistoric animals, mammals mainly since those are the more easily available, hopefully that changes in the future.

[Theropodavid]

My focus is on predatory dinosaurs, but there are a lot of other prehistoric animal figures I would like to lay my hands on.

[Shonisaurus]

I've only collected dinosaurs so far, but I'm going to start with other kinds of prehistoric animals, mammals mainly since those are the more easily available, hopefully that changes in the future.

I also like all kinds of prehistoric mammals both before and after the ice age. I would like dinosaur companies and prehistoric animals to pay more attention to prehistoric mammals, as lately companies like Safari and Collecta have done.

From my point of view Jose coincided that over time the number of people who collect prehistoric mammals and in a future closer than we imagine will increase. I think it will be another golden age of prehistoric mammals similar to the Victorian era before the dinosaurs were popularized by the "war of bones" starring Othniel Marsh and Drinker Cope.

[Halichoeres]

I voted "any prehistoric animals," but that's not quite true. I collect anything (animals and plants) from the Paleozoic or Mesozoic. The Ediacaran biota is mostly nondescript films of snot on the seafloor, and most of the Cenozoic is similar enough to modern times that it interests me less from a sculptural, anatomical, or ecological perspective. I focus much more on non-tetrapod chordates than other groups, but even so my collection is almost 1/4 theropods just because there are so many theropod figures available. I have to admit that with 134 theropods in my collection, I'm getting pretty bored with them and would like more variety.

[Libraraptor]

Any prehistoric animals. If I voted dinosaurs only it would not do justice to  my Procynosuchus, Mastodonsaurus and Mammoths for example.

[Reptilia]

Anything Papo release for their prehistoric line, though I wish they would expand more on non-dinosaur species.

[postsaurischian]

All fauna! Unfortunately there's no option in the poll for this, so I can't vote.

[RobinGoodfellow]

My collection is focused on quality  (..or the best quality I can afford..  )

[Halichoeres]

I'm encouraged by the preponderance of "any prehistoric animal" responses. Take heed, toy makers.

[ceratopsian]

The vast bulk of my collection is made up of dinosaurs.  But I have a little group of pterosaurs. A few oddments, e.g. an aetosaur.  I have a few Permian synapsids.  And I am planning to buy the Eofauna pair of extinct elephants.

[SBell]

I've cut a lot of dinosaurs out of my collection recently, and I'm not quite done with it either. Some other prehistorics as well, but mostly dinos.

Still primarily a fan of prehistoric mammals, non-dinos and all fishes. That has never changed.