Prehistoric Origami: Dinosaurs and Other Creatures by John Montroll, 119 pages, 23 models,  ISBN: 0-486-26588-9.

Features an introduction to wet folding by Rosalind Joyce and diagrams for bird and frog bases.

Model Name Complexity # of Steps Info
Mountain / Volcano * 17 / 19  
Cracked Dinosaur Egg * 19  
Prehistoric Tree * 20  
Parasaurolophus ** 43  
Struthiomimus ** bb+33  based on the bird base (bb)
Kuehneosaurus ** bb+12+41  based on the first steps of Struthiomimus
Archaeopteryx ** 18+56  based on "half" a bird base
Pterodactylus ** bb+53  
Quetzalcoatlus ** 45+19  part of the folding sequence is the same as for Pterodactylus
Rhamphorynchus ** fb+43  based on the frog base (fb)
Pteranodon *** 44  
Elasmosaurus ** 37  some trial and error involved in the first few steps
Tanystropheus ** pf+37  starts out with the preliminary fold (pf)
Apatosaurus *** 45  
Brachiosaurus *** 31+23  starts out the same as Apatosaurus
Dimetrodon *** 26+30  starts out the same as Apatosaurus
Spinosaurus *** 46  
Tyrannosaurus *** 56  
Hadrosaurus *** 52  
Iguanodon *** 71  
Protoceratops *** 47  
Triceratops **** 90  
Stegosaurus **** 71  there's a very cool twist fold involved (and on top of everything else, it's easy, too:-) )

 


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