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Stan
Stan
Catalog number BHI 3033
Common name Stan
Species Tyrannosaurus rex
Age between 67 and 65.5 million years
Date discovered 1987
Discovered by Stan Sacrison

Stan is the nickname given to a fossil of the dinosaur species Tyrannosaurus rex. It was found in Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, close to Buffalo in 1987 by Stan Sacrison, who also discovered the Tyrannosaurus specimen nicknamed "Duffy". The original specimen is housed at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research.

It is a well known specimen, and one of the most complete, with 199 bones recovered. About 30 casts of the original fossil has been sold worldwide, each for a price of about $100 000. Stan measures 10.9 metres long.

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  • Tyrannosaurusscale

    "Sue", AMNH 5027, "Stan", and "Jane", to scale with a human.

  • Tyranosaurus rex skull

    Original skull of the type specimen (CM 9380), inaccurately restored with plaster after Allosaurus, before a complete T. rex skull was known

  • Dynamosaurus

    Type specimen of Dynamosaurus imperiosus"

  • Manospondylus

    Illustration of the type specimen (AMNH 3982) of Manospondylus gigas

  • CMNH Tyrannosaurus Rex

    Reconstructed mount of CM 9380

  • AMNH rex mount

    Scale model of the never-completed Tyrannosaurus rex exhibit planned for the American Museum of Natural History by H.F. Osborn; AMNH 973 is the cowering individual, and AMNH 5027 is the other individual.

  • Nanotyrannus lancensis skull

    Nanotyrannus holotype

  • Royal Tyrrell Black Beauty

    "Black Beauty"

  • T. rex Big Mike

    "Big Mike" in front of the Museum of the Rockies.

  • Sues skeleton

    "Sue" specimen, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

  • RexStan2

    Stan's cast in a dynamic hunting pose at dinopolis, Teruel's museum of paleontology (Spain).

  • Stan -T.rex fossill and MOR555 - cast by Volkan Yuksel DSC06441

    Photo of the original Stan Fossil (on the right) was taken at Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc. from Hill City, South Dakota.

  • Carnegie Peck's Rex

    Cast, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

  • OriginalPecks

    Peck's Rex (nicknamed Montana's Rex) real fossils displayed at the Museum of the Rockies.

  • Tyrannosaurus resting pose

    Cast of the "Bucky" specimen

  • T-rex fossil Jane by Volkan Yuksel DSC08683g

    Juvenile T. rex fossil "Jane" with red arrow showing the anticipated infection area on the lower left foot. Burpee Museum of Natural History at Rockford, IL

  • B-rex skull

    Reconstructed skull of B-rex

  • Tyrannosaurus peptides

    Femur of MOR 1125 from which demineralized matrix and peptides (insets) were obtained

  • Sampson Tyrannosaurus

    Samson

  • Scotty Tyrannosaurus

    Scotty exhibited in Japan

  • Tristan Tyrannosaurus

    Tristan in Berlin

  • Trix - lateral view

    Trix

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