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The private sale of fossils has attracted criticism from paleontologists, as it presents an obstacle to fossils being publicly accessible to research. [2] Most countries where relatively complete dinosaur specimens are commonly found have laws against the export of fossils. The United States allows the sale of specimens collected on private ...
Torosaurus (meaning "perforated lizard", in reference to the large openings in its frill) is a genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, between 68 and 66 million years ago, though it is possible that the species range might extend to as far back as 69 million years ago. [1]
Torosaurus: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago) The first recorded Torosaurus find in Colorado, the most complete Torosaurus ever found. [45] Found in 2017 and originally thought to be a Triceratops. [46] Yoshi's Trike MOR 3027 Museum of the Rockies: Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago)
Shortly afterwards, the specimens went on sale, including auctioning at Bonhams, but no purchase was made. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2016, Lindsay Zanno of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reached out to Phipps, starting negotiations to purchase the fossil, with funds being raised through the private nonprofit Friends of the North ...
Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (/ ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ p s i ə / or / ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t oʊ p i ə /; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Asia and Europe, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Late Jurassic of Asia.
Tyrannosaurus in the arena. Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular was created by The Creature Technology Company. [2] The production cost $20 million to stage and used puppetry, suits, and animatronics to create 16 Mesozoic era creatures representing 10 species. [3]
In 1976, Douglas A. Lawson transferred the species to Torosaurus, as a Torosaurus utahensis. [4] [5] Apart from the holotype skull little fossil material of Arrhinoceratops brachyops has been found. In 1981 Helen Tyson in a revision of the genus, provisionally referred specimen ROM 1439, [6] but in 2007 Andrew Farke moved this to Torosaurus. [7]
Big John is part of a larger run up in auction prices for dinosaur remains, [26] [27] and was, until the sale of Apex in 2024, the most expensive non-Tyrannosaurus fossil ever sold at auction. [ 4 ] [ 28 ] However, its price was substantially lower than the $ 27.5 million ($31.8 million with fees and costs) paid in 2020 for the Tyrannosaurus ...