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Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota has become the world's most expensive fossil sold at auction, after fetching a record $50
Summary
It includes 183 fossil bone elements, making it about 61% complete by bone count, or 75% to 80% complete by mass. The auction house said Gus is one of the most complete T. rex sold at auction in 2020 for $31.8 million, which is about 70% complete by bone count - and Sue, the first dinosaur fossil ever sold at auction in 1997.
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People
- Gus2
- Rare T. rex fossil
- Cassandra Hatton
- Kenneth Griffin
- Ken Griffin
- Hatton
- Stan
- Sue
Organisations
- Sotheby2
- American Natural History Museum
- Museum of Natural History
- US State of South Dakota
- Hell Creek Formation
- United Nations
- Dakotas
- BBC
Places
- New York2
- Apex2
- Harding County
- South Dakota
- Montana
- Wyoming
Keywords
- tyrannosaurus2
- auction2
- expensive
- dinosaur
- fetching
- million
- record
- sells
- ever
- most
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