It is now housed in the Field Museum, Chicago. In the end, it amassed US$8.3 million dollars and broke a record for the most valuable fossil sold at auction. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the best represented theropods. The species Tyrannosaurus rex ( rex meaning 'king' in Latin ), often called T. There are only 32 largely complete T-Rex skeletons in museums around the world. One of the biggest, most complete T-Rex specimens in history was sold by Sotheby's in 1997. rexs jaws were up to 4 feet (1.2 m) long and had 50 to 60 thick, conical, bone-crunching teeth that were up to 9 inches (23 cm) long. Tyrannosaurus nb 1 is a genus of large theropod dinosaur. Over the past century, scientists discovered about 100 fossils – mostly in the American states of Dakotas, Montana and Colorado. In comparison, Stan is about 11.2 metres long, 4 metres high and 1.8 metres wide. The skeleton will go up for auction in Zurich. Rare T-Rex Skeleton to Go Under the Hammer in Switzerland A 67-million-year-old T-Rex skeleton named 'TRX-293 TRINITY Tyrannosaurus' and measuring 11.6m. John Nudds, Professor of Palaeontology, Earth Sciences Department, Manchester University, United Kingdom. The skeleton is museum standard and is 54 per cent represented by bone density.Īfter the assembly of Shen's remains, it is larger than Stan – measuring at 12.2 metres long, 4.6 metres high, 2.1 metres wide, and weighs 1,400 kilograms. The skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex named Trinity is seen at the Tonhalle Zurich concert hall on March 29, 2023, in Switzerland. David Burnham, Professor of Palaeontology and Therapod Specialist, and Dr. It has been researched by the leading academic palaeontologists – Dr. Dynamically posed as though amid a hunt, Shen the T-Rex is in a scientifically accurate pose epitomising its ferocity. Tyrannosaurus rex was a giant, meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 85-65 million years ago. This Shen skeleton was unearthed in Montana state, United States.
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