FMNH PR2081

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Catalog number:	FMNH PR2081
Common name:	Sue
Species:	Tyrannosaurus rex
Age:	65 million years
Place discovered:	Cheyenne River Sioux indian reservation, South Dakota
Date discovered:	1990
Discovered by:	Susan Hendrickson

1 Discovery and Classification
2 The Most Expensive Dinosaur
3 See Also
4 Notes
5 References

[edit] Discovery and Classification

FMNH PR2081 was found in 1990 by Susan Hendrickson at the Cheyenne River Sioux indian reservation, near Faith, South Dakota. When Pete Larson and his team at the Black Hills Institute began extracting the fossil, they nicknamed it "Sue", after its discoverer.

[edit] The Most Expensive Dinosaur

In 1997, Sue became the centre of a media circus which called the rightful ownership of the specimen into question. Eventually Sue was put up for auction at Sotheby's, New York, and sold for $8.36 million ^[1]. The winners were the Chicago Field Museum, Disney and McDonalds and the price marked Sue as the most expensive dinosaur ever.

[edit] See Also

FMNH Article on the importance of Sue: [1]

[edit] Notes

^ The winning bid was $7.6 million before Sotheby's commision.Steve Fiffer (2000). Tyrannosaurus Sue. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York. ISBN 0-7167-4017-6. Chapter 12 "Everything Changed that Day".