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The Hall of Late Mammals, along with contemporary and later fossil mammal halls, had its origins in the original fourth floor fossil exhibits from the Museum's 1877 building, which included dinosaurs. The hall, initially the Hall of Fossil Vertebrates, even exhibited a small collection of dinosaurs before the fossil reptiles were transferred to their own hall. By 1903 the hall, now named the Fossil Mammal Hall exhibited the Frick Collection, including primitive hoofed mammals, mastodons, elephants, carnivores, and even-toed hoofed mammals, and the Evolution of the Horse (3, 1902; 2, 1904, p. 13; 1, 1987/88, p. 49). By 1911, the new Quaternary Mammal Hall, later named the Age of Man Hall, opened and the mastodons, mammoths, and other advanced mammals were moved there. The Fossil Mammals of the Tertiary Period, as the Hall of Late Mammals was then known, exhibited fossil camels and giraffes; giant pigs and pygmy hippopotamus; ancestors of the rhinoceros; primitive dogs and cats, including the saber-toothed tiger; titanotheres and uintatheres; and the Evolution of the Horse, which included the skeleton of Eohippus, and paintings and models by Charles R. Knight (2, 1911, p. 74-80). By 1919, fossil primates, rodents, and marsupials were added (2, 1919, p. 106).
Specimens may have moved between the Hall of the Age of Man and the Hall of Late Mammals during hall revisions. Some specimens from the Late Mammals Hall, such as the Toxodon, Glyptodon, Macrauchenia, Uintatherium, and giant sloths appear in the Hall of Early Mammals in the 1950s. The mammoths and mastodons moved to the Hall of Late Mammals following the closure of the Hall of the Age of Man in the 1960s (2, 1953, p. 64-67; 4, 1967). In the early 1990s the Halls of Early and Late Mammals were closed to make way for the Hall of Primitive Mammals and the Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals (1, 1990/91 p. 1). Many of the same fossil exhibits from the previous halls can be viewed in the current halls.
Curator for hall (1, 1937, p. 11-1).
Exhibition Coordinator (1, 1988/89, p. 38).
Curator for hall (1, 1941, p. 9).
Companion hall from 1953 to closure
Fossils exhibited moved between the Halls of Late Mammals and Age of Man (2, 1911, p. 77; 2, 1962 p. 37).
Artist, murals in hall 2, 1911, p. 74-80).
Curator for hall (1, 1933, p. 6).
The Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals replaced the Hall of Late Mammals (1, 1990/91 p. 1).
Expedition collected material for hall (1, 1923, p. 32)