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OCR: world largest collection of real fossils of dinosaurs mammals, and other vertebrates The Barosaurus skeleton on display at the Museum is composed of casts made from real bones which would be too heavy to mount Just one fossilized neck bone of an adult Barosaurus weighs almost two hundred pounds!) The Barosaurus specimen is the most complete in the world eighty percent of the adult's skeleton was cast from original fossils Other parts -the skull pnd some tail and limb segments -were sculpted by artists working together with paleontologists. Reconstruction of missing parts for all three skeletons was based on comparisons with fossils of closely related dinosaurs