It’s hoped that the skeleton, made up of the bones of three different Tyrannosaurus Rex, will remain on public display
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton called Trinity – made up of the bones of three different T-Rexes – has sold for US$6.1 in a rare auction in Switzerland.
Auctioneer Cyril Koller said it was the first time in Europe and only the third time worldwide that an entire T-Rex skeleton of exceptional quality was offered at auction, Koller, Switzerland’s largest auction house, said in a statement.“It was a wonderful auction because we showed Trinity for two-and-a-half weeks in the concert hall in Zurich. And so more than 30,000 visitors came and admired Trinity; a lot of children,” he told AFP.
As its name suggests, Trinity is made up of a composite skeleton of 293 bones from three dinosaurs – excavated between 2008 and 2013 from the Hell Creek and Lance Creek formations in Montana and Wyoming. Vertebrate palaeontologist Thomas Holtz – who is against the sale of such specimens Holtz – was sceptical, insisting that Trinity “really isn’t a ‘specimen’ so much as it is an art installation”.
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