Dinosaur: the largest triceratops discovered soon exhibited in Paris before its auction

The largest triceratops in the world, named “Big John”, is coming to the Marais district in Paris.

More precisely, the specimen, more than 66 million years old and with a skeleton 8 meters long, is on display at 13, rue des archives. Passers-by will be able to admire it at this address until October 18.

This Tuesday, August 31, his impressive two-meter-wide skull, some 200 bones and two horns measuring more than one meter were being mounted behind the windows of the exhibition gallery, reports Agence France- Press (AFP).

auctioned on October 21

Estimated between 1.2 and 1.5 million euros, the triceratops, more than 60% complete (75% for the skull), will then take up residence in the lounges of the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, where it will be auctioned on October 21 by the auction house Giquello.

For this triceratops, discovered in 2014 in South Dakota (United States), by geologist Walter W. Stein Bill, “we have a dozen possible buyers”, told AFP Me Alexandre Giquello, commissioner -prisor.

“A 150-million-year-old diplodocus femur and a 100,000-year-old mammoth skull,” she said.

probably died in a fight

The prehistoric animal lived on Laramidia, an island-continent that existed during the Late Cretaceous era, in North America.

His death in a floodplain allowed the skeleton to be preserved in the mud, a sediment without biological activity. As indicated by a laceration in the skull, he probably lost his life after a fight.

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