Marx's Cynognathus (meaning: dog jaw) was one of the actual dino's in their Mold Group PL-755. Before it was immorta;ized in plastic, it lived way longer than a few weeks ago, specifically it was a predator during the Middle Triassic - ca247.2-237mil yrs ago - and ranged in the southern hemisphere with fiossils being found in Argentina, South Africa, Namibia, and Antarctica. The Triassic period was a part of the Mesozoic age and it was during the Middle Triassic when pine forests emerged and thrived in what was a much warmer period than it is now. (sooooo, if global warming keeps up the way it is will we see an emergence of the dinosaurs?? hmmm) The Marx version, being from 1957, has some innaccuracies in that the hindlimbs would have sat directly beneath the body while the forelimbs were splayed outwards. The Marx dino measures 2 3/4" (6.98cm)L x 3/8" (0.95cm) H. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
I had one of these in red and it was missing about half of the tail. Loved it.
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Thanx Mike! That was probably from Marx's '70's output when they switched to colorful non-lead based plastics. OR it could have been MPC which also made one of these critters. (I have a red MPC one that will eventually get posted)
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