Rare dinosaur, known as ‘Barry’, up for sale at Paris auction
An unusually well-preserved dinosaur skeleton, a Camptosaurus known as Barry, will go under the hammer in Paris next month, Reuters reports
The dinosaur’s skeleton dates back to the late Jurassic period – it lived about 150 million years ago. The remains were discovered in the 1990s in the US state of Wyoming and were originally recovered in 2000 by palaeontologist Barry James, after whom Camptosaurus was named. Italian laboratory Zoic, which acquired Barry last year, has done further restoration work on the skeleton, which is 2.10m tall and 5m long.
“It is an extremely well-preserved specimen, which is quite rare. To take the example of its skull, the skull is complete at 90 percent and the rest of the dinosaur (skeleton) is complete at 80 percent,” said Alexandre Giquello from the Paris auction house Hotel Drouot, where the dinosaur sale will take place.
According to the expert, dinosaur specimens on the art market remain rare, with no more than a couple of sales a year worldwide.
