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The specimen in question is a few centimeters long arthropod Fuxianhuia protensa.
The specimen in question was actually sold at the auction for $1.05 million but was seized by the U.S. Government.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program began the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank NMMTBB) in response to a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) mortality event where a lack of banked specimens left questions concerning unusually high environmental contaminants unanswered.
The specimen in question was "discovered in 2009 in northeastern China representing the earliest mammal ever to be discovered that had a placenta, or was in the process of developing a placenta, to nourish its unborn".
The specimen in question, consisting of a complete adult skeleton and tentatively assigned to P. mongoliensis, was found in the lower beds of the Yixian Formation.
After the November National Geographic came out, Storrs L. Olson, curator of birds in the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution published an open letter on 1 November 1999, pointing out that "the specimen in question is known to have been illegally exported" and protesting the "prevailing dogma that birds evolved from dinosaurs".
The specimen in question is a near complete skull that is similar in size and hypsodonty to the modern Castor, but shows a combination of traits, including "primitive traits", which led previous researchers to suggest the specimen belonged to a separate genus, Sinocastor.
The first dorsal rib of X. latimarginalis was previously identified as short [ 72] (reaching about half way to the axillary buttress), but revision of the specimen in question (IVPP V9537-1) reveals that the rib was long.
