When new information is discovered what can be used?

When new information is discovered its value varies depending on its quality, relevance, and amount. Someone picked up a small piece of dinosaur bone in big bend national park. No location was recorded. It was new information telling people that dinosaurs roamed in that area. Since specific information about location had not been preserved, time, and type could never become available. The information became a trivial fact.

If the location had been recorded, the information would have been quite useful producing hundreds of thousands of dollars.