Texas Memorial Museum

Exhibits: Outdoor

Sarah and Ernest Butler Outdoor Classroom

 

Mosasaur (Mosasaurus maximus) Vertebra Seats

These seats are modeled after a vertebra from a mosasaur, a large marine reptile that lived during the Cretaceous Period.  See the full skeleton of the Onion Creek Mosasaur, found southeast of downtown Austin, on display in the Museum’s Hall of Geology and Paleontology.

The original vertebra is 3-4 inches in length.  These seats are 8 times life-size.