THE most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever discovered is on display in London standing atop a plinth made by a York-based attraction specialist.

Paragon Creative, in Elvington, made the display for the Natural History Museum to showcase the dinosaur, which walked the earth around 150 million years ago, and was discovered in 2003 in Wyoming US.

Paragon’s design brief and challenge was to produce a plinth which supported the frameworkd for the Stegosaurus without the plinth actually touching the framework in any way to eliminate any risk of vibration or impact movement.

A Paragon spokesperson said: "We designed an internal independent steel frame inside the outer plinth, which sits on bespoke shock absorbent feet.

"The outer plinth then surrounds and covers this inner plinth with no contact what so ever.

"The whole plinth and armature was then built in our Solid Surface workshop in York before being dismantled and shipped down to the Natural History Museum and built on site behind tight security."

Also as part of the project and display the Paragon team produced an Interpretation table, incorporating replicas of the Stegosaurus supplied by Propshop and Graphics and AV by the Natural History Museum.

The discovery of the 360 bones making up the specimen makes it the most complete Stegosaurus specimen in the world.