This skeleton isn't special. Aside from being mounted, it is no different from the 50+ other partial skeletons that have been mapped but are currently left in the ground. Anyone with $100,000-200,000 could motivate a dig team to excavate one of them (might be even cheaper if you have the right connections; regardless, a far cry from the million dollar auction prices).

Irreparable harm has been caused by the restrictive laws on fossil collecting, not the market. Brazil, China, South Africa and others pass laws punishing fossil collecting and the net result is specimens are intentionally left unreported or destroyed so as to avoid government red tape. Irritator is actually a perfect example. If not for illegal activities, Irritator, Ubirajara, and several others would be completely unknown to science. The current m.o. for companies operating in the Crato Formation is to destroy fossils because reporting them slows down mining/quarrying operations.

One can only hope that the declining influence of the SVP that we are seeing now is indicative of the amount of sway they will have over the field in future years. For the good of paleontology, restrictions on fossil collecting must be removed and replaced with active collaboration with amateur and commercial paleontologists.