Dubreuillosaurus fossil auction in Paris, Digi Mart USA News (Paris, France): A dinosaur skeleton about 167 million years old is due to be auctioned on November 18, 2026, and paleontologists say it is of major scientific importance. According to the source, the sale will be held in Paris by the house Millon at the Hôtel Drouot.
The specimen is one of the most beautiful and complete dinosaur skeletons found in France. It is the fossil of a very rare carnivorous theropod named Dubreuillosaurus, which is the only known representative of its genus.
The source warns that the sale could lead to the fossil’s disappearance into a private collection, possibly in a foreign country. Similar outcomes have occurred before for other important fossils, including skeletons of the well-known T.
rex.
The auction house estimates the specimen at between 250,000 and 300,000 euros. According to the source, that price far exceeds what any public institution is able to spend, leaving almost no chance that the specimen will remain in a public collection accessible to the scientific community.
The skeleton comes from Conteville in the Eure department of Normandy, where the first fragments were discovered in 1994 by André Dubreuil. The source article was published by 20 Minutes and was not independently verified.
