The Triceratops Prorsus Skull
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$285,000
Initial Offering Marketing Cap -
$25
Initial Offering Share Price -
#DEATON
Ticker -
01/2021
Initial Offering Date
In 1999, Dr. Bobby Deaton of Texas Wesleyan found and excavated a Triceratops prorsus skull from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. At more than seven feet long and with all three original horns intact, Rally’s #DEATON was preserved in plaster field jackets for more than a decade following its uncovering.
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“As with any commodity, price is driven by demand, and in today’s booming market, fossils compete with fine art for the attention of the super rich.”
— National Geographic
#DEATON Timeline
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British scientist Richard Owen is the first to widely declare the existence of dinosaurs — “immense animals with thick limb bones and strong, reinforced hips.”
Jan. 1842
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Othniel Charles Marsh discovers Triceratops remains near Denver, Colorado, and mistakenly identifies the organism as an extinct species of giant bison.
Jan. 1887
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Marsh identifies the specimen as Triceratops.
Jan. 1889
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Russian astronomer Joseph Shklovsky introduces a theory proposing that the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs approximately 65.5 million years ago was the result of a single catastrophic event.
Jan. 1956
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Father-son geologists Luis and Walter Alvarez, along with nuclear chemists Frank Asaro and Helen Michel, publish a paper in Science Magazine theorizing that the C-T mass extinction event was caused by an impact from an asteroid the size of San Francisco over 65 million years ago.
Jun. 1980
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A crater is found off the northern coast of the Yucatan peninsula. Over 110 miles wide and 12 miles deep, the Chicxclub crater lends credence to the now-popular theory that the dinosaurs were eradicated in a cataclysmic asteroid impact.
Jan. 1991
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Jurassic Park is released. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film depicts a memorable scene including a sick Triceratops being cared for by handlers.
Jun. 1993
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Dr. Bobby Deaton of Texas Wesleyan University discovers #DEATON, a Triceratops prorsus skull from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota.
Aug. 1999
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The excavation of #DEATON is completed and preserved in plaster field jackets.
Jun. 2001
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Dr. Deaton passes away of a stroke after teaching at Texas Wesleyan University for 47 years.
Jan. 2015
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#DEATON is sold to GeoDecor. #DEATON is removed from its plaster jackets and undergoes painstaking preparation.
Oct. 2016
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Rally enters into an agreement to acquire #DEATON and offer it on the Rally platform.
Nov. 2020
#DEATON Details
The recovered skull elements of the #DEATON are of excellent quality overall, exhibiting nice detail, solid outer surfaces, and a natural dark brown patina common on fossils recovered from the iron-rich geological formation at Hell Creek. #DEATON is now mounted on a stand for display, and has undergone osteographs which map its original bone content, showing that the skull retains 50% of its original bone count and 65% of its original bone mass.
Invest Now| Financials | |
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| Price Per Share | $10.00 |
| Number of Shares | 2,400 |
| Storage Location | Rally |
| Initial Offering Market Cap. | $24,000 |
| Current Market Cap. | $24,000 |
| Initial Offering Price Per Share | $10.00 |
| Initial Offering | January, 2021 |
| Asset Specifications | |
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| Memorabilia Type | Triceratops Skull |
| Order | Ornithischia |
| Suborder | Ceratopsia |
| Family | Ceratopsidae |
| Genus | Triceratops |
| Species | Prorsus |
| Excavation Site | Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota |
| Excavation Year | 1999 |
| Condition | Well preserved |
| Presentation | Mounted on a display stand |
| Length | Over 7 feet |
| Documentation | Osteograph mapping original bone content |
