FOSSIL SKULL OF A JUVENILE TRICERATOPS 'BABY JANE'
- Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, USA
- Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous
- 66 million years ago
- Dim. (H × L × P): 116 x 155 x 78 cm
- (45.7 × 61.0 × 30.7 in.)
- Provenance:
• Ken Smith Ranch, Redig, Harding County. Discovered during excavations in 1998, GPS coordinates 45° 16′ 16″ N; 103° 32′ 52″ W.
• Dinoseum GmbH, Germany, 2000
• Eldonia SAS, François Escuillié, France, 2012
• Private Belgian collection, acquired in 2017
• Restored by Raphus SPRL, Belgium, 2022
- Exhibition:
- Documentation:
• Excavation invoice issued by Frederik Nuss, dated 23 January 2000, made out to Dinoseum and bearing the company’s stamp; countersigned and stamped by Eldonia on 12 September 2013.
• Shipping documents (UPS) and an EU import declaration, made out to Eldonia, relating to a shipment sent by BABY T REX LLC (Las Vegas), October 2012.
• Scientific report of “Baby Jane” by Dr Pascal Godefroit, palaeontologist, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 2023.
•French Ministry of Culture (France), export certificate for a cultural property (no. 245597) for the palaeontological specimen “Skull of a Triceratops (‘Baby Jane’)”, issued 4 September 2004.
• Exhibition poster, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, From Asteroid Impacts to Planetary Defense, 23 June 2022.
Photo credit : Studio Asselberghs – Frédéric Dehaen
