THE National Dinosaur Museum is asking for the public’s help after one of their replica dinosaurs was stolen from a Jurassic World display at Hoyts Belconnen.

During HOYTS Belconnen’s final sessions on Tuesday night someone departing the cinema snuck into the museum’s cordoned off display and made off with the model of a Protoceratops.

The cinema’s security cameras have clear footage of the theft and this is being turned over to Belconnen Police.

The Museum urges anyone who has knowledge of the incident to please contact the Belconnen Police or for the thief to return the model to the museum.

The missing Protoceratops is pictured in the foreground with a Ticeratops for scale. The life-size model was of a 1.8m Protoceratops (meaning “First Horned Face”), a small herbivorous dinosaur species from Mongolia that may be related to an Australian species, Serendipaceratops of Jurassic World’s Triceratops. It is most famous for one individual being found in mid-combat with a Velociraptor. The predator’s claws seem to be imbedded in the herbivores neck, while the Protoceratops has one foot of the Velociraptor snared in its beak. Both likely died from the battle.