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Ken Griffin purchased a stegosaurus skeleton for approximately $45 million.
The T-Rex skeleton known as 'Stan' was acquired by the Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum at a Christie's auction in 2020 or 2021 for $31 million.
David Aron gallery facilitated the acquisition of a completely new dinosaur species for the Natural History Museum in the UK by finding a private collector to purchase the fossil and fund its research.
A complete dinosaur skeleton, identified as either a Marsosaurus or a completely new species, was sold to a private collector.
A privately-owned dinosaur skeleton, potentially a new species, is on loan for public display at the Colchester Museum in the UK.
Buyers of high-end dinosaur fossils compete with sovereign wealth funds and wealthy technology executives.
The market for dinosaur fossils has been booming over the past 10 years.
Salomon Aron predicts the maturing dinosaur fossil market will experience a 'flight to quality' with greater price differentiation between top-tier and average specimens.
Rising prices for dinosaur fossils over the past decade have increased the financial feasibility of expeditions, leading to a greater supply of discovered specimens.
In the United States, it is legal to sell a dinosaur fossil if it is found on private land and the seller has permission from all relevant parties.
To ensure provenance, David Aron gallery insists on documentation for dinosaur fossils including GPS coordinates of the discovery site, land deeds, sale arrangements, and in-situ videos of the discovery.
Dinosaur fossil skeletons sold on the market are rarely 100% original bone and are typically assembled from discovered fragments and completed with resin or 3D-printed parts.