Results of the Chicxulub bolide impact on Laramidia after the Cretaceous–Paleogene or K-Pg extinction and on the Hell Creek Formation in four states and near Tanis, North Dakota buried millions of creatures. A Triceratops fossil was unearthed in 2015 and restored in Italy then sold for $7.7 million.
In June a group of paleontologists, students and amateurs who pay to dig unearthed another juvenile triceratops skull from the Cretaceous Period in the formation near Baker, Montana. Paleo Prospectors continues at another site beginning Sunday near Newcastle, Wyoming through July 30 and boasts economic impacts in communities near their field locations.
But if dinosaur fossils are being excavated from unceded lands in Indian Country why aren't the proceeds from their sales being shared with Native Nations?
Happy #FossilFriday! This is a close-up of the bony frill at the back of the skull of a #Triceratops (MOR 2999). The channels are where blood vessels spread over the bone. Triceratops roamed #Montana and surrounding regions at the very end of the #Cretaceous, 66 mya. pic.twitter.com/bgFPbzEvP2
— Museum of the Rockies (@MuseumRockies) May 27, 2022
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"The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago and was discovered in Montana in 2018 will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's announced Tuesday. Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore that lived in what is now the western United States and Canada during the late Cretaceous Period. It predated its relative the Tyrannosaurus rex by 10 million years."
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