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2. List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction - Wikipedia

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   The private sale of fossils has attracted criticism from paleontologists, as it presents an obstacle to fossils being publicly accessible to research. [2] Most countries where relatively complete dinosaur specimens are commonly found have laws against the export of fossils. The United States allows the sale of specimens collected on private ...

3. Small shelly fauna - Wikipedia

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   The small shelly fauna, small shelly fossils (SSF), or early skeletal fossils (ESF) [1] are mineralized fossils, many only a few millimetres long, with a nearly continuous record from the latest stages of the Ediacaran to the end of the Early Cambrian Period. They are very diverse, and there is no formal definition of "small shelly fauna" or ...

4. Wonderful Life (book) - Wikipedia

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   Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list, [1] was the 1991 winner of the Royal Society's Rhone-Poulenc Prize, the American Historical Association's Forkosch Award, and was a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

5. List of small shelly fossil taxa - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of small shelly fossils of prehistoric marine animals, ordered by their type. Part of a series on: The Cambrian explosion; Fossil localities. Burgess ...

6. Fossil preparation - Wikipedia

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   The oil shale contains 40% water. When a slab is broken free of surrounding rock, it will soon dry out and crack. [14] A slab with a perfect fossil will turn to a heap of rubble in a few hours, destroying the fossil with it. This was the fate of numerous Messel fossils until the transfer technique was started to be applied in the 1970s.

7. Sue (dinosaur) - Wikipedia

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   Sue’s reassembled display is intended to reflect the newest scientific theories, including the proper furcula and attachment of the gastralia to the rest of the skeleton. [49] [50] [51] Sue's real skull is kept in a separate display case in the exhibition, allowing it to be removed for study as required. [39] [52] [47]

8. Wyoming Dinosaur Center - Wikipedia

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   The Wyoming Dinosaur Center is located in Thermopolis, Wyoming and is one of the few dinosaur museums in the world to have excavation sites within driving distance. [1] [2] The museum displays the Thermopolis Specimen of Archaeopteryx, which is one of only two real specimens of this genus on display outside of Europe.

9. Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site - Wikipedia

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   The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey.Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858.