Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
An unusually well-preserved dinosaur skeleton, a Camptosaurus known as Barry, will go under the hammer in Paris next month. ... ($1.28 million) when it goes on sale on October 20.
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]
The fauna of Morrison Formation is similar to one in the coeval rocks of Tendaguru Beds (in Tanzania) and Lourinhã Formation in Portugal, [1] mostly with the second. Some genera are shared in Morrison and Lourinhã, such as Torvosaurus, [2] Ceratosaurus, [3] Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus, [4] and Allosaurus. [5]