Barry the dinosaur up for auction

Barry, the skeleton of a rare and exceptionally well-preserved 150-million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur, goes under the hammer in Paris


BARRY: Adult skeleton of Camptosaurus, part of Iguanodon family, among earliest groups of dinosaurs discovered

Found in fossil-rich Morrison Formation, Wyoming, in 1990s and named after palaeontologist
Barry James, who unearthed and later restored it

Length: 5m 
Height: 2.1m

2022: Further restored in Italy by Zoic laboratory and paleontologists from University of
Bologna

Around 80% of bones are original – 90% of skull remains intact

Barry expected to fetch up to $1.28m in Oct 20 sale

Original 
Replica
                                                                            

Sources: Hôtel Drouot auction house, Reuters
Pictures: Newscom
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