Lego City Natural History Museum: Setting in the First Floor Walls, etc.

 Next phase involved finishing floor tiles, building up walls, setting the dinosaur displays, beginning the lower support pillars for the holding up the second floor sections.  Some consideration was given to the right front gallery featuring creatures from the Pre-Cambrian Era Oceans.  

The main exhibit in the grand hall is the baby Brachiosaurus skeleton from the original set.

The Utahsaurus mother and brood are on the left with a baby Triceratops.

The Ankylosaurus nest is on the right

The Pre-Cambrien Ocean Gallery

The focus model is a large Ammonite.  I found one online and modeled mine after it without the benefit of plans.  It's a good model and this one is pretty close.

It's tentacles are the first thing to greet guests as they enter.  It rests on a wall of ancient ocean models with corals and other creatures.

The opposite corner has a giant model of a troglodyte. Beneath the window is a fossil of an ammonite to compare to the larger model.

Finally a trio of ancient mega-Jellyfish rise to the delight of visitors.

Saber-Tooth Tiger Gallery

The Pre-Cambrien Ocean Gallery predates the Dinosaurs in the same way that the Sabertooth Tiger Gallery postdates them.  Bookends to the Dinosaurs.

The Sabertooth Tiger is displayed in an autumn, mountainous diorama with a bone!

She fits on the outside wall of the left gallery.

In considering how to complete the gallery, the choices were limited by size.  The only other prehistoric mammal is a Woolly Mammoth, and it's too large to fit.  A Sabertooth skull came with the original set and would make a nice compliment to the diorama, however, it's not very big and wouldn't be the second focus.  That's when I looked back at my Mini-figure collection and knew the way the to go: Humans.  Cavefolk and their means to protect themselves from the Sabertooth.

The Cave couple with weapons of bone, fire, and a domesticated wolf.

They sit opposite the Sabertooth Tiger with foliage that seems to link them.

The Sabertooth Skull is on a platform near the entrance.