print email comment close The Age of Reptiles Mural at the Yale Peabody Museum URL: http://www.peabody.yale.edu/explore/reptiles.html Description: This site reproduces and describes Rudolph Zallinger's famous dinosaur mural, a panorama "from the Devonian period of almost 400 million years ago to the late Cretaceous, a chapter that ended some 65 million years ago." Painted over a four-year period (1943-1947), the 110 feet long by 16 feet high work is a kind of time capsule of both the biological science and art of its time. Author: Donaghue, Michael, director Publisher: Yale Peabody Museum Library of Congress Subject Headings: Dinosaurs Mural painting and decoration Museums -- Connecticut -- New Haven Natural history museums LII Database Information: Record 8413 created by Martha Gifford on 02/17/2002 Last modification on 08/03/2005 Published: 02/17/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8413