1.   Money for field research today is so limited that some museum collectors and academic paleontologists complain that only commercial fossil dealers can afford large-scale dinosaur expeditions.

2.   Richard Eisenman, a prominent fossil dealer in New Jersey, says that the fudging of fossils has long been quietly tolerated.

3.   Some say federal regulations and enforcement are needed to prevent fossil dealers from disposing of specimens valuable to science.

4.   The fossil dealer who excavated the dinosaur, Peter L. Larsen, is serving a two-year sentence at a federal prison camp.

5.   The tyrannosaur specimen was found by commercial fossil dealers on land owned by Maurice Williams, a Sioux Indian from South Dakota.

6.   They argued that the Black Hills case offered an opportunity for the government to administer a painful object lesson to fossil dealers everywhere.

7.   Marion Zenker, a commercial fossil dealer for the South Dakota-based Black Hills Institute, questions police claims about the extent of fossil smuggling.

8.   He also alleges they conspired to send Permian Crinoid fossils, which resemble ancient sea anemones, to a fossil dealer in Germany.