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It is the largest known Triceratops skeleton, according to the team that assembled the fossil. Big John's 2021 auction price of € 6.6 million ( US$ 7.7 million) made it the most expensive Triceratops skeleton; its high price signaled increasing demand for dinosaur fossils among private collectors and prompted discussion about the drawbacks of ...
Illustration of specimen YPM 1871E, the horn cores that were erroneously attributed to Bison alticornis, the first named specimen of Triceratops. The first named fossil specimen now attributed to Triceratops is a pair of brow horns attached to a skull roof that were found by George Lyman Cannon near Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 1887. [3]
Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago) Hell Creek formation: Largest known Triceratops skeleton; 60% complete with a skull that is 75% complete. [18] [19] Sold for €6.6 million (US$7.7 million) on 21 October 2021 [19] [20] Bill BDM Badlands Dinosaur Museum: Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 ...
A nearly complete and intact dinosaur skeleton has been excavated in France. The specimen is a Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs of its time. 70 million-year-old giant dinosaur skeleton ...
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. Photo credit: User:ScottRobertAnselmo Skeleton mount of Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
Bony parts include the skull, the axial skeleton (spine and ribs), and the appendicular skeleton (girdles and limbs). [21] Most of these bones are paired , with a mirror-inverted counterpart on the other side of the body, or unpaired , in which case they usually lie at the body midline and are divided by the latter into two symmetrical halves ...
The dinosaur lived 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period, making it millions of years older than the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the Earth some 66 million to 68 million ...
It consists of a partial skeleton with much of the skull; the skull lacks the lower jaws but includes parts of the edges of the frill, large horns above the eyes, and a small horn above the nose, similar to the closely related Triceratops. At least seven neck and five back vertebrae, as well as several ribs and ossified tendons, were also ...