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I just had some kind of discussion in facebook regarding this egg from aix en provence. I was pretty sure its real, since it looks like others I found online and I was bought from a reputable dealer in europe. As there were some people who seemed to be sure its a composite I would like to get some opinions about it. Thanks.

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I agree in that it pretty much looks like other specimens I've seen from the region (see, for instance, here, here and here), but am far from an expert on this material. In addition to asking Nicolas, it may also be informative to get the opinions of @Troodon and @HamptonsDoc on this.

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Yes Its real is a Megaloolithus type egg.  The appearance is typical for this type of egg and region.

FYI: most dealers are reputable but proper identification is a problem across the industry.  Verify what you a buying unless you are positive its an accurate call, dont make assumptions because of reputation.

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5 hours ago, Troodon said:

Yes Its real is a Megaloolithus type egg.  The appearance is typical for this type of egg and region.

 

Not that I'm disagreeing at all, but what baffles me are the varying tones of the shell pieces which are directly adjacent to each other. One would think that they should be more similar in color. Can you explain this phenomenom?

 

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1 hour ago, Ludwigia said:

 

Not that I'm disagreeing at all, but what baffles me are the varying tones of the shell pieces which are directly adjacent to each other. One would think that they should be more similar in color. Can you explain this phenomenom?

Here is my egg.  Lots of variation in  coloration of shell.  Possible that the shell fragments fossilize slightly different since each in contact with a different surface?  

 

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I found this "remount" one online, which looks quite different compared to mine.

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It could be that this egg is partly real, with a few shell and lot of inprints, like this picture :

 

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and the other side is composite, with various textures of shells, not a sigle edge corresponding to the neighbouring shell edge. the colors can vary but on regions, not from a shell to another. Im talking about this picture :

 

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I would stay away from this one

 

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13 hours ago, Pixpaleosky said:

It could be that this egg is partly real, with a few shell and lot of inprints, like this picture :

 

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and the other side is composite, with various textures of shells, not a sigle edge corresponding to the neighbouring shell edge. the colors can vary but on regions, not from a shell to another. Im talking about this picture :

 

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I would stay away from this one

 

That is exactly what I was going to say. 

There are many composite French eggs. Real eggs looks like a bunch of broken pieces, but not that way. Also matrix between those pieces doesn't looks right at all (look at last picture)

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3 hours ago, glu said:

That is exactly what I was going to say. 

There are many composite French eggs. Real eggs looks like a bunch of broken pieces, but not that way. Also matrix between those pieces doesn't looks right at all (look at last picture)

Makes it an expensive doorstopper now :-)

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