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hi guys i love to hunt fossils and minerals, found this peculiar egg? help identify, if you need more info or pics, thanks
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Egg came from China (unfortunately I don't have a specific area). It came from the Cretaceous time period. Dimensions (Length x Width x height) The fossil is 12cm (~5in) x 10cm (~4in) x 10cm and weighs 2.5kg. I'm not sure what kind of species this came from however I'm curious if anyone can tell me from the pictures. Either way I'm glad I have a fossil egg of some kind even though I may not know what species it is. (I'm also I little worried that it may not be an egg at all as people do mistake fossil eggs quite commonly. However I can get a full refund so no worries).
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From the album: Dinosaur Eggs
A Segnosaur egg from Henan Province of China - one of the finest egg in my collection -
From the album: Dinosaur Eggs
A partial sauropod egg from Djadokhta formation of the Gobi Desert, prepped by Mike Holmes -
I just acquired what looks to be a very unusual egg. This single egg comes detached from a clutch of upright eggs in an antique shop in Singapore; owner would not reveal where it origins from. The egg is white, and covered in reddish-sand matrix that can be scrapped off with a needle. This egg measures 7.66 cm long (I lack measurement of the nest, owner wouldn't let me take more pics). My first thought were that these are Troodon eggs, as "upright eggs" are a characteristic of troodon eggs as far as I know. 1) Thomas(Tom) Kapitany said these looks like it came from China. He didn't personally give it an ID, but mentioned he had seen these identified as Protoceratops before. 2) Seth Sorenson said there's no way to confirm it as Troodon without skeletal material, but he said they look like small ceratopsian eggs to him. He also mentioned Protoceratops eggs have been found in standing clutches before. 3) Laogao, a fossil egg expert from China said this looks like Troodon eggs from Henan. 4) Dr. Kenneth Carpenter said these are most likely theropod eggs of the Elongatoolithus(egg oogenera) family. Without microscopic examination or confirmation of their origin, he could not give any further identification though. With such little information, I am aware there's no way to give a definitive ID of the dinosaur that laid these eggs. I'd still like to ask for your opinions though on what you believe this egg might be.
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From the album: Dinosaur Eggs
My Lowell-prepped Oviraptor egg. Crushed but still lovable! -
From the album: Dinosaur Eggs
A mysterious dinosaur egg from the late Cretaceous of China. Supposedly a small hadrosaurid, but still lacking a proper ID. -
From the album: Dinosaur Eggs
A very rare partial Titanosaur egg from Allen Formation, Rio ######, Argentina -
From the album: Dinosaur Eggs
A pair of Titanosaur egg partials from Auca Mahuevo of Patagonia - an area known for yielding many prized egg remains -
Hadrosaur Eggs Shell Texture Looks Fishy?
AJ Plai posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I saw a clutch of eggs today in a local flea market and took a look at it and saw quite an interesting texture on it. I have seen pictures and handled a few Hadrosaur eggs before, and I am not familiar with this kind of texture and feel and so I took a few photos to share to ask some egg experts here if this is common for a Hadrosaur Egg to look like this? Or is the specimen possibly a fake? Here are the pictures of the specimen:
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Hi everyone! My kids, ages 7 and 4, are so intrigued by the natural world that we decided to start a collection for them of native american artifacts and fossils. As far as fossils go, we've gifted them with a beautiful peace of coprolite from the American Southwest, Petrified wood from Arizona, lava rock from Hawaii and Arizona and for Christmas we want to give them what we think is a dinosaur egg. I think it might be a hadrosaur egg. Attached are some pictures of the "egg." It weighs exactly 6lbs. and came from Arizona apparently. I purchased this off ebay and the seller didn't know much about it. As you will see in the photos the inside has some crystallization and on the outside there is a small anomaly that I swear looks like a piece of fossalized skin...almost like a little knee or elbow sticking out...you can see the scales on it. Any input would be greatly appreciated. I am so excited to surprise my kids on Christmas with this! Thanks! Jenn
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A gentleman gave me this object and claimed it was a dinosaur egg fossil he found on his property in TN. It doesn't appear to be any type of geode I have ever seen, but i'm unsure if it is in fact a dino egg.
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From the album: My Cabinet of Curiosity & Geological Art
Assorted dinosaur eggs and proboscidean fossils collection -
From the album: Dinosaur Fossils collection
Assorted collection of different types of dinosaur egg fossils from Asia -
From the album: Dinosaur Fossils collection
Segnosaur Egg fossil (Spheroolithus Egg) Locality: Nanchao Formation, Nanyang Valley, Henan Province, China Geological Age: Late Cretaceous (68 MYA) -
From the album: Dinosaur Fossils collection
Segnosaur Egg fossil (Spheroolithus Egg) Locality: Nanchao Formation, Nanyang Valley, Henan Province, China Geological Age: Late Cretaceous (68 MYA) -
From the album: Dinosaur Fossils collection
Segnosaur Egg fossil (Spheroolithus Egg) Locality: Nanchao Formation, Nanyang Valley, Henan Province, China Geological Age: Late Cretaceous (68 MYA) -
From the album: Dinosaur Fossils collection
Segnosaur Egg fossil (Spheroolithus Egg) Locality: Nanchao Formation, Nanyang Valley, Henan Province, China Geological Age: Late Cretaceous (68 MYA) -
Hi can I get some second opinions on whether if these are Segnosaur eggs or not? They seem to look like segnosaur egg pics that float around online, but they seem to also look very much like concretion stones. So I can't be sure how you can tell them apart. Anyhow here are the pics: Specimen A: Here is another, Specimens B: Thx for the expertise and input
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Unusual Dinosaur Egg Fossils From China?
Han.T posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi all, On one of our regular outings we stumbled upon an old shop in Chinatown with the following egg fossils on display. The owner supposedly brought many of such fossils out of China many decades ago and they are now part of his prized collection. The first two photos are of a nest of small oval-shaped eggs around 3 inches in length. The third photo is of a single egg similar to that in the nest, also measuring 3 inches length. Lastly is a different kind of spherical egg about 4 inches in diameter. All eggs are on the typical red-mudstone that most Chinese dinosaur eggs are found on, leading to our suspicions that the oval-shaped ones may be of Protoceratops and the spherical one could be from Therizinosaurus. I am not entirely sure however as they also do bear some resemblance to Crocodile and Turtle eggs. Can anyone shed some insight on what type of egg fossils these are? I would love to find out more on their oology, thanks!
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Today I found a bunch of these rock looking things, are they egg shells of some sort or just rock? Found in lowood, Queensland, Australia.
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Hi, i think i found many dinosaur eggs in the desert in israel. Local nature preserve staff are clueless. I have pictures. Can you guys weigh in on this? What are these? There were dozens of egg shaped rocks like this. Mostly with brown surfaces. This one was attached to a large bolder but i managed to get it free by dropping the bolder on the egg a couple of times. Once it was free, the side stuck in the bolder had a white surface. The brown surface side also has a white layer just beneath the surface. The cross section break was the way it was found and seems to have been that way for a long time. The second rounder egg was partially exposed in a cliff side in the desert. There were several other egg-like objects there so i suspect it was a nest. I had to hammer it out to break it free. The other "eggs" were too embedded to bother trying. They were also cracked as if other people had tried to get them and broke off pieces. That is why mine has a missing section, i suspect. What do you think? 6 pictures posted, 3 of each. I guess they weigh about 7lbs each or so, (estimate).
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My son and I have recently started getting interested in paleontology and geology due to hiking in dried up river beds in Central Texas. What was an "old shell" transformed into a possible exogrya ponderosa from the Cretaceous period! This brought the possibility of actually finding dinosaurs! Low and behold the very next weekend we found some HUGE tracks at a local state park that were not know to the internet (but were to the local rangers). I'm thinking maybe Acrocanthosaurus for those! Then yesterday, we were hiking on a USAF base and found a rock that looks like an egg of some kind. The boys are convinced it's a dinosaur egg. I'll let the forum decide! Look forward to posting! Mike
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I found this in the Chesapeake Bay on the lower Eastern Shore of Md and believe it was scooped up in an oyster dredge. Dimensions are 5" X 3" several pounds with an amber translucent rock texture. You can actually see light passing through the approx. 1/2 inch walls. I am a complete newbie here and this is my very fist posting . Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hadrosaurs roamed the area and I believe it may have made it's way down the Susquehanna River.
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I am helping a friend identify these. They were found by his deceased brother over 40 years ago while hunting in Wyoming. Sorry that there is no scale bar, but they are approx 5-7 inches long and I have several larger ones. They are shaped exactly like a guinea fowl egg, just much larger. They were found in 3 "clutches" of approx 7-8 in each "clutch." Any thoughts?
