SIOUX FALLS, S.D. AP – A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied a rehearing in the five-year ownership battle over Tinker, a 65 million-year-old skeleton of a teenage Tyrannosaurus Rex unearthed in South Dakota.

Commissioners in Harding County, where the fossils were first found in 1998, had asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for another hearing after it validated a lease entitling the county to only 10 percent of any sale proceeds.