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Bird Egg (possibly Limpkin)
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Taxonomy
Limpkin (?) Egg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Aramidae
Genus: Badistornis (?)
Species: Badistornis (?) sp.
Author Citation Wetmore
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Eocene
Stratigraphy
White River Group
Chadron Formation
Peanut Creek Member (?)
Provenance
Collector: Joe Gallo
Date Collected: 06/09/1986
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 60 mm
Width: 45 mm
Height: 27 mm
Location
Badlands north of Crawford
Dawes County
Nebraska
United States
Comments
Fossilized egg with brown-colored shell and chalcedony fill. Probably from a limpkin-like bird (possibly Badistornis aramus Wetmore). Note the porous texture of the shell material.
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