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Sold 11 times above pre-sale estimates to American billionaire financier Kenneth Griffin. Most expensive fossil ever sold as of 2024. [85] Vulcan Apatosaurus: 75-80% complete skeleton Discovered in 2018 in Wyoming, United States Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa November 16, 2024 Paris $6,400,000 [u] $6,400,000 [86]
Fossils are common from the Ordovician through the Pennsylvanian. Illinois has a reputation for rocks bearing large numbers of trilobite fossils, often of very high preservational quality. [1] There is a gap in Illinois' geologic record from the Mesozoic to the Pleistocene. During the Ice Age, Illinois was subject to glacial activity.
In the United States, it is legal to sell fossils collected on private land. [7] In Mongolia and China the export of fossils is illegal. [9] [11] Brazil considers all fossils as federal assets and prohibits their trade since 1942, banned the permanent exports of holotypes and other fossils of national interest in 1990, and requires permits by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation ...
Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs.
Fossils of land plants are common in Ohio's Pennsylvanian rocks. Amphibians, reptiles, and freshwater clam fossils are also known from the time. The marine life of Ohio included crinoids, snails, cephalopods, brachiopods, and fishes. Trilobites were also present, but their fossils are rare. [4] By the Permian period the sea had left completely.
The Nature Company was a Berkeley, California-based chain of retail stores that sold scientific toys, telescopes, artwork, fossils, minerals and gems, books, clothing, and music CDs. The Nature Company was founded in 1972 by Priscilla and Tom Wrubel.
The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora. Esconi. ISBN 978-1-932433-71-5. Jack Wittry (2012). The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna. Esconi. ISBN 978-0578111483. Jack Wittry (2020). A Comprehensive Guide to the Fossil Flora of Mazon Creek. Esconi. ISBN 978-0-578-22890-7. Mike Sula (July 1, 2004). "The Vanishing Mother Lode of Mazon Creek". Chicago Reader.
Dated to the Late Jurassic epoch, it is the largest known Stegosaurus fossil, preserving skin impressions and throat ossicles alongside a mostly complete skeleton. On July 17, 2024, the specimen was sold at Sotheby's for $44.6 million to hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin , making it the highest-priced fossil ever sold at auction.