Keywords: Bernissart Iguanodon mounted skeleton.jpg en Workmen mounting the first Iguanodon bernissartensis skeleton in the St George Chapel in Brussels 1882 Because Belgium did not really possess a tradition in mounting vertebrate specimens Louis Dollo �s men had to invent their own method Although they successfully mounted a great number of specimens who are now on display in the Brussels Museum of Natural History their solution meant that unmounting the animals was near to impossible without physically damaging them These days the Brussels Iguanodons have become museum specimens in more than one way illustrating the evolution of mounting such animals in museums in the nineteenth century fr Equipe de montage du premier squelette d'Iguanodon de Bernissart dans la chapelle St Georges à Bruxelles en 1882 sous la direction de Louis Dollo nl Team de montage van de eerste skelet van Iguanodon van Bernissart in de kapel van St Joris in Brussel in 1882 onder leiding van Louis Dollo http //www archaeopteryx nl/2009/mounting-iguanodon-1882/ 1882 Author PD-old Iguanodon skeletal mounts 1882 in Belgium |