Frick Dinosaur Museum

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Skeleton of a plateosaur in the Frick Dinosaur Museum
Exterior view of the Frick Dinosaur Museum
Foot of a plateosaur from Frick

The Frick Dinosaur Museum is a museum in the center of Frick in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It mainly shows dinosaur finds from Frick.

Opening and organization

The Frick Dinosaur Museum was opened on October 21, 1991. It is divided into two thematic areas: the lower part shows the dinosaur skeletons, while the gallery is dedicated to marine fossils . Almost all the finds shown come from the clay pit Gruhalde of the Tonwerke Keller in Frick; few fossils come from excavations on the Frickberg.

exhibition

The museum is known for its plateosaur finds from the late Triassic period. In 1961, bone fragments were discovered for the first time in the layers of the upper variegated marl . The first scientific excavation was carried out in 1976. In the following years excavations took place irregularly. In 1985 the first complete and contiguous Plateosaurus skeleton was found. Today this forms the heart of the museum. A relief mounting of a plateosaur skeleton makes it possible to get an impression of the size of these 5–8 meter large herbivores.

The only predatory dinosaur skeleton of a previously unknown dinosaur was recovered in 2006 and 2009. Inside the body of the predatory dinosaur, remains of the stomach contents have been preserved, which come from a bridge lizard . The remains of the oldest tortoise ( Proganochelys ) in Switzerland complete the exhibition.

The marine fossils in the museum's gallery date from the early Jurassic period. In the fossil-rich Arietenkalk (Beggingen-Member) there are numerous ammonites , nautilids, belemnites and shells, such as the oyster- like Gryphaea . A scientifically valuable fossil is the skull of an ichthyosaurus , which was found in 2001 in Frick.

literature

  • Rainer Foelix, Ben Pabst, René Kindlimann: Die Saurier von Frick , special print from the 2011 announcement, Volume 37, Aargauische Naturforschende Gesellschaft

Web links

Commons : Sauriermuseum Frick  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the dinosaur museum
  2. ↑ Thomas Wehrli: Jurassic World in Frick: Largest Swiss dinosaur skeleton discovered. In: Aargauer Zeitung, July 2, 2015
  3. ↑ Rainer Foelix, Ben Pabst, René Kindlimann: Die Saurier von Frick, special print from communication 2011, Volume 37, Aargauische Naturforschende Gesellschaft

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '19.3 "  N , 8 ° 1' 6.6"  E ; CH1903:  643 688  /  two hundred sixty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six