![]() ![]() Link insisted Koller was being transparent about the origins of the bones. The skeleton is being sold by a private individual. Just over half of the bone material in the skeleton comes from the three Tyrannosaurus specimens-above the 50 percent level needed for experts to consider such a skeleton as high quality. The 3.9-meter (12.8-foot) high skeleton went on display on a red carpet under crystal chandeliers in a concert hall in the city Wednesday. Trinity, which is being sold by an anonymous "private individual", is expected to fetch six to eight million Swiss francs ($6.5-8.7 million) when it goes under the hammer in Zurich on April 18, the Koller auction house estimates.īut Christian Link of Koller said he believed the guide price was a "pretty low" estimate. "Sue" went under the hammer in 1997 for $8.4 million, and "Stan", which took the world-record hammer price of $31.8 million at Christie's, in 2020. ![]() The two sites are known for the discoveries of two other significant T-Rex skeletons that have gone to auction. Trinity, the Swiss T-Rex, is made up of bones from three dinosaurs excavated between 20 from the Hell Creek and Lance Creek formations in Montana and Wyoming. The Swiss sale comes only four months after Christie's withdrew another T-Rex skeleton days before it was to go under the hammer in Hong Kong after doubts were reported about parts of it. to combine multiple real bones from different individuals to create a single skeleton." The huge skeleton will go under the hammer in a rare auction in Switzerland next month after being sent to Zurich from the United States in nine giant crates.īut paleontologist Thomas Holtz-who is against the sale of such specimens-told AFP that it was "misleading" and "inappropriate. ![]()
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