CLUTCH OF SAUROPOD EGGS

[leelee51]

I've really started to look for fossils of interest to me (I'm a newbie to it, and have had fun researching). Dino eggs make me the most nervous, after reading (including on this site) about all the fakes --- even those sold at "reputable" auctions. I'm especially interested in Sauropods and came across these.

 

Details:  "Hypselosaurus priscus", Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous, discovered in France.

 

1. I've been comparing to images on this site that users have noted are real --- and I feel those characteristics and things to look for align with these. But am I missing anything?

2. These are hatched, correct? This was my assumption based on unhatched examples (and the price!), but the auction language made it unclear.

 

Thanks for your insights --- I've had fun lurking the site and learning as a non-member for quite a while.

 

 

[Fossildude19]

Cropped, enlarged and brightened. 

 

 

 

 

 

I would ask for close up pictures of each egg. 

[leelee51]

Thanks, Tim! for brightening that. Here's a close up of the other side:

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I don't know if the eggs are good, but I understand that Hypselosaurus is no longer a valid taxon.

[HamptonsDoc]

Need closer images to be sure but from what I can see these look real and are beautiful!

[Troodon]

Missed this topic.    What size are the eggs and do you happen to have a locality where they were found.  They look beautiful and on the surface real.

[Pixpaleosky]

they are from Herault.

they are real but have been repaired in several places.

a link to the local museum website on how they are extracted

https://www.dinosaure.eu/oeufs/

And the specie Hypselosaurus has been abandonned, this one shall be Megaloolithus sp.