The true world's first sculptures of antediluvian animals, which never were?/span>

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• 作者：Fabien Knoll  ; ;   ; ^{mcnfk854@mncn.csic.es} ;   ; ^{mcnrl836@mncn.csic.es} ; Raquel Ló ; pez-Antoñ ; anzas
• 关键词：Fré ; miet ; Jacquemart ; History of science ; Plesiosauria ; Pterosauria ; Paris ; 1852
• 刊名：Comptes Rendus Palevol
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：October 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：10
• 期：7
• 页码：597-604
• 全文大小：519 K

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In 1852, the French state commissioned the artists Fr¨¦miet and Jacquemart to execute bronzes of a plesiosaur and a pterodactyl for the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The orders were cancelled before the sculptures could be realized, largely because of petty jealousies among the professors of the Mus¨¦um national d¡¯Histoire naturelle, who maintained that the long-extinct animals were too poorly understood for accurate reconstructions. In this way an important opportunity to educate and inspire the French public about the life of the past was lost.