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Who collected the fossils used to name Tyrannosaurus rex?
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The fossilized remains of Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in the world, on display at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
The partial fossils used to name Tyrannosaurus rex were collected by the renowned fossil hunter Barnum Brown from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana.12
In 1905, the American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn used these specimens to formally name the species.12