Vertebrate paleontologist Thomas Holtz remains skeptical, insisting that Trinity, a 12.8-foot skeleton whose bone material comes from three Tyrannosaurus specimens,“really isn't a 'specimen' so much as it is an art installation.'
A curator gingerly fastens a pointy claw bone with a thin metal wire, completing perhaps the world's biggest construction kit -- reassembling a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus-Rex called Trinity.
The Swiss sale comes only four months after Christie's withdrew another T-Rex skeleton days before it was to go under the hammer in Hong Kong after doubts were reported about parts of it. Just over half of the bone material in the skeleton comes from the three Tyrannosaurus specimens -- above the 50 percent level needed for experts to consider such a skeleton as high quality."Hence the name Trinity. We are not hiding in any way that this specimen comes from three different dig sites," he said.
"Fossils are not, or at least should not be, considered trophies or glorified action figures," Holtz said. It was important for the fixes to remain visible, he said, showing the dark lines where the fissures had been.
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