PNSO to Add A Spiky Miragaia Model

PNSO in collaboration with Everything Dinosaur announce yet another new edition to the PNSO mid-size range of prehistoric animal models.  Say hello to Rosana the Miragaia model, a wonderful and very spiky-looking new replica that will be available from Everything Dinosaur in 2021.

The New PNSO Miragaia Model (Rosana the Miragaia)

PNSO Rosana the Miragaia Model

Over the last few weeks, Everything Dinosaur has made several announcements about new additions to the PNSO range of mid-size figures.  Today’s announcement is that of another member of the Stegosauridae to join PNSO’s ever-growing prehistoric animal portfolio.  A number of stegosaurs are already featured in the mid-size range including Qichuan the Tuojiangosaurus and the beautiful Bieber the Stegosaurus replica.

PNSO have also made a large model of Chungkingosaurus which features in a diorama with the fearsome theropod Yangchuanosaurus as well as Luxi the Huayangosaurus dinosaur model and a small Tuojiangosaurus replica in the “Age of Dinosaurs” range.

Super Stegosaurs – A Trio of Armoured Dinosaurs from PNSO (Tuojiangosaurus, Miragaia and Stegosaurus)

Available from Everything Dinosaur in 2021

This new, exciting figure of an armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Portugal, which was formally named and scientifically described in 2009, will be available from Everything Dinosaur in early 2021.

A spokesperson for the UK-based company stated:

“Once again PNSO have surprised and delighted dinosaur fans by announcing this magnificent Miragaia model.”

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A View of the Magnificent Spikes on the New PNSO Miragaia Figure

A Dorsal View (View from the Top Down) of Rosana the Miragaia Dinosaur Model from PNSO

PNSO prehistoric animal models that accompany your growth number 39 Rosana the Miragaia will be in stock at Everything Dinosaur in 2021, joining the likes of the recently announced Borealopelta, the Sauropelta and Qichuan the Tuojiangosaurus.  It looks, thanks to PNSO and Everything Dinosaur, that 2021 is going to be a bumper year for armoured dinosaur models.

To view the range of PNSO prehistoric animal models and figures available from Everything Dinosaur: PNSO Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals.

PNSO to Introduce a Sinoceratops Model

PNSO the model and figure manufacturer will be adding a replica of the Chinese horned dinosaur Sinoceratops to their mid-size model range in 2021.  Say hello to the PNSO Prehistoric Animal Models That Accompany Your Growth 40 A-Qi the Sinoceratops.  This stunning, new model of Sinoceratops will be available from Everything Dinosaur in the early part of next year (2021).

PNSO are Introducing a Model of a Sinoceratops to their Mid-size Model Range

This is the second horned dinosaur figure to be announced by Everything Dinosaur in collaboration with PNSO this week after the Machairoceratops was premiered in our blog with a post on November 30th.  To read about the new for 2021 Machairoceratops figure: New PNSO Model Machairoceratops.

Images of the new Sinoceratops were revealed on Everything Dinosaur’s Facebook page earlier this week.

Sinoceratops – Named in 2010

Sinoceratops was formally named and described in 2010 (Xu Xing et al), from fossils discovered in 2008 in eastern China.  It might be the only ceratopsid known from outside North America, (the validity of Turanoceratops tardabilis from Uzbekistan remains uncertain).  It is therefore fitting that a Chinese manufacturer should add a replica of “Chinese horned face” to their product portfolio.

A Close-up of the Beautiful Head of the New for 2021 Sinoceratops

A Dorsal View of the PNSO Prehistoric Animal Models That Accompany Your Growth A-Qi the Sinoceratops

Early, this year PNSO introduced a baby Sinoceratops figure, also called A-Qi.  It seems that this baby dinosaur has grown and matured into a magnificent specimen.

A-Qi the Baby Sinoceratops Dinosaur Model from PNSO

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PNSO A-Qi the Sinoceratops Model Measurements

As this figure will be part of the ever increasing range of mid-size models offered by PNSO, no scale for this figure is given.  The model measures a fraction over 15 cm long, and those magnificent parietals are 9.4 cm off the ground.  Based on the maximum size of an adult Sinoceratops (6 metres in length), we estimate that this figure is in approximately 1:40 scale.

The PNSO A-Qi Sinoceratops Model Measurements

The Splendid Packaging for the Sinoceratops Model

A-Qi the PNSO Sinoceratops figure is likely to be stock at Everything Dinosaur in early 2021.

To see the stock of PNSO Age of Dinosaurs models available from Everything Dinosaur: PNSO Age of Dinosaurs.

PNSO To Introduce a Machairoceratops Model

PNSO are to add another dinosaur figure to the mid-size range of models.  A replica of the horned dinosaur Machairoceratops will be available from Everything Dinosaur in early 2021.  Everything Dinosaur and PNSO have collaborated on a number of new model announcements in recent weeks.  Perez the Machairoceratops is just the latest in a long line of exciting new figures.

New from PNSO and Available from Everything Dinosaur in Early 2021 – Perez the Machairoceratops

Machairoceratops – Soldier with Bent Swords

PNSO have called their new dinosaur model Perez.  The soldier with the “bent swords” is a reference to the curved parietals (bent horns on top of the neck frill), after which, this dinosaur was named.  Machairoceratops is pronounced Mak-air-oh-sera-tops and the name translates as “bent sword horned face”.

The Stunning Perez the Machairoceratops from PNSO

Machairoceratops – Plugging a Gap in the Horned Dinosaur Fossil Record

Fossils of this spectacular-looking horned dinosaur were recovered from strata in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument area of southern Utah (Wahweap Formation).  Palaeontologists calculate that this six-metre-long herbivore roamed the landmass known as Laramidia around 77 million years ago.  Its discovery has helped fill a four-million-year gap in the centrosaurine fossil record.

A Close-up View of the Spectacular Horns on the New PNSO Ceratopsian Model

Fossils of an earlier centrosaurine called Diabloceratops eatoni have been found in rocks that date to around 80 million years ago. The fossil material related to Machairoceratops plugs the gap between Diabloceratops and the later, centrosaurine Nasutoceratops titusi, whose fossils are associated with the overlying Kaiparowits Formation and date to approximately 75 million years ago.

To read Everything Dinosaur’s blog post from 2016 about the naming and scientific description of Machairoceratops: Plugging a Four Million Year Gap in the Centrosaurinae.

PNSO Machairoceratops Model Measurements

This new PNSO dinosaur model measures 15.7 cm long and those curved parietals are around 7.9 cm off the ground.  Several models from PNSO are currently in production and Everything Dinosaur will be making more new model announcements from this fascinating series in the near future.

PNSO Machairoceratops Model Measurements

Hinting About Future Model Announcements

Sharp-eyed readers might spot the figure of A-Qi the Sinoceratops (top left in the picture below), this is an image of a new PNSO replica that has yet to be officially announced.  At least one more member of the Ceratopsidae can be expected from PNSO.

Hinting About Future Model Announcements

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The spectacular Perez the Machairoceratops model is likely to be in stock at Everything Dinosaur in early 2021.

To see the existing range of PNSO Age of Dinosaurs models available from Everything Dinosaur: PNSO Age of Dinosaurs.

New CollectA Models for 2021 (Fourth and Final Part)

Today, we complete our look at the new for 2021 prehistoric animal models that are coming out from CollectA.  In collaboration with CollectA Everything Dinosaur announces a further three new figures, they are an iconic prehistoric mammal, an updated version of perhaps the most extensively studied Early Jurassic theropod and an amazing Late Cretaceous ammonite with an incredible shell.

• A CollectA Deluxe 1:20 scale Doedicurus – a wonderful replica of a prehistoric mammal.
• CollectA Deluxe 1:40 scale Dilophosaurus – a model of an Early Jurassic theropod.
• A CollectA Pravitoceras model – a stunning replica of a heteromorph ammonoid known from the Late Cretaceous of Japan.

All three figures will be available from Everything Dinosaur around the middle of 2021.

The New for 2021 CollectA Deluxe Doedicurus Replica

CollectA Deluxe Doedicurus Model

This is a stunning replica of the South American giant, distantly related to sloths and anteaters.  First described by the famous English anatomist Richard Owen in 1847.  Once assigned to the genus Glyptodon, Doedicurus was placed in its own separate genus in 1874 following an extensive revision of glyptodont fossil material.

Model designer Anthony Beeson commented:

“I wanted to get away from the rather cartoonish appearance of some of the Doedicurus models on the market.  I have rejected the idea of long spikes on the club as these would be in danger of snapping and not so practical in what was probably its main purpose in mating conflicts between males where the idea is to show strength and not to kill rivals.  One can give a harder blow with a knobbly club. although no doubt used as well in defence, the limited movement afforded to the head would rather limit the animal’s ability to use the club effectively against an attacker.”

The CollectA Deluxe 1:40 Scale Dilophosaurus

CollectA Deluxe 1:40 Scale Dilophosaurus Dinosaur Model

The last new for 2021 dinosaur figure to be announced by CollectA is a colourful, updated version of this Early Jurassic carnivore.  A recently published paper (Marsh and Rowe 2020), revised how scientists viewed this theropod.  The shape of those famous double crests changed and Dilophosaurus was depicted as a much more robust and powerful predator.  The perception that this was a weak-jawed scavenger was replaced with the view that Dilophosaurus represents the largest terrestrial vertebrate known from the Early Jurassic of North America. 

Our congratulations to CollectA for producing a new Dilophosaurus replica so quickly after the publication of the research.

With the introduction of this Dilophosaurus scale model, the Age of Dinosaurs Popular Dilophosaurus figure will be retired.

The CollectA Pravitoceras Model

CollectA Prehistoric Animal Figures

The final new for 2021 CollectA figure is this spectacular model of the Late Cretaceous heteromorph ammonite Pravitoceras.  This colourful model extends the number of invertebrates featured in the CollectA range following the introduction of a horseshoe crab, Orthoceras, a belemnite, a trilobite, the nautilus (N. pompilius) and an ammonite with a regularly coiled shell – Pleuroceras, in 2020.

Whilst members of the public might be quite familiar with those types of ammonites with tightly coiled shells, as epitomised by the CollectA Pleuroceras (an example of a homomorph shell), in the Late Jurassic a number of new types of marine cephalopod began to appear in the fossil record with varying degrees of uncoiled shells.

We congratulate CollectA for their new ammonite model.

These ammonites became increasingly abundant during the Cretaceous. By the Late Cretaceous they were widespread and extremely diverse with a myriad of different types of shell.  So numerous were these ammonites, that just like their coiled relatives, many genera have become important zonal fossils assisting with the relative dating of strata.

A Heteromorph Ammonite Fossil

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Bizarre Shells

Unlike some of the more bizarre shells of other heteromorphic ammonites, the final shell coil of Pravitoceras forms a distinctive “S” shape and the body chamber is folded back on itself to form a retroversal hook.  Pravitoceras would have been able to swim with a minimal amount of drag due to its shell shape, whereas other more irregularly coiled ammonites with much more complicated shell configurations would have been encumbered by their shells when attempting to swim.

Palaeontologists speculate that these types of ammonites were either entirely epifaunal (dwelling on the sea floor), perhaps scavenging or hunting slow moving animals such as bivalves or snails, or they floated passively in the water column, like many types of extant jellyfish, feeding on zooplankton.

Whatever, part of the Cretaceous marine ecosystem Pravitoceras occupied it makes a great addition to the CollectA portfolio.

Model Measurements

• A CollectA Deluxe 1:20 scale Doedicurus – length 18 cm, height of the carapace 7.6 cm, width 7.6 cm.
• CollectA Deluxe 1:40 scale Dilophosaurus – length 18.4 cm, height 7.1 cm.
• A CollectA Pravitoceras model – length 11 cm, height of shell 8.6 cm and width 7.1 cm.

All of these models will be available from Everything Dinosaur in the middle of 2021 or thereabouts.

Links to the CollectA Model Range at Everything Dinosaur

To view the existing range of CollectA Deluxe models: CollectA Deluxe Prehistoric Animal Models.

CollectA models and figures: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models and Figures.

Links to the Previous Everything Dinosaur Articles (Parts 1-3) About New for 2021 CollectA Figures

New CollectA Models (Part 1) 1:40 scale Mamenchisaurus, Kamuysaurus, Brontosaurus prey: New CollectA Models for 2021 – Part 1.

Our blog post about the new CollectA Models (Part 2): Megalosaurus, Neovenator and the 1:15 Deluxe Pteranodon: New CollectA Models for 2021 – Part 2.

New CollectA Models (Part 3) – Elasmosaurus, 1:40 scale Xiphactinus and the new mini prehistoric animals: New CollectA Models for 2021 – Part 3.

All three of these figures will be available from Everything Dinosaur around the middle of 2021.