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The specimen is"virtually complete and incredibly well preserved" according to Sotheby's, and is also the first instance of an auction house working closely with a paleontologist from discovery to sale, documenting everything from excavation to restoration and mounting. The auction house did not name the seller but called him a"well-known and respected commercial paleontologist" who discovered the stegosaurus on his private land with no other fossils nearby., a geologic formation where fossils have been found since the 1880s, and can be most closely compared the to the stegosaurusThe sale makes Apex the most expensive fossil ever sold, topping the $31.8 million sale of a Tyrannosaurus rex named Stan.