fossilizedcorgi Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Ladies and gents, I have a dino egg I need some help with. Since file size is limited to 2.9 ill have to post the other picture in the comments. Thanks, Fossilized Corgi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilizedcorgi Posted April 22, 2018 Author Share Posted April 22, 2018 pic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Welcome to TFF! Nice looking egg. What size is it? Where did it come from? What do You want to know about it? Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Welcome to the forum. Please be more specific, as Tony is suggesting. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 2 hours ago, ynot said: Nice looking egg. Huh ? ! Circle the shell texture, and I'll be in. Until then I see concretion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Looks like a Chinese segnosaur egg unless it was found in Missouri, which would most certainly make it a concretion. There does appear to be texture and the cracking is typical of Chinese eggs. It could use some prepping, but a pretty nice specimen. 1 Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 3 minutes ago, steelhead9 said: Looks like a Chinese segnosaur egg unless it was found in Missouri, which would most certainly make it a concretion. There does appear to be texture and the cracking is typical of Chinese eggs. It could use some prepping, but a pretty nice specimen. I can go along that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Asked before but what is your question about the egg? Need answers to ynots questions. This addresses is it real. Agree with steelhead9 looks like a nice egg. I am seeing the shell texture in the first pictures, right side, and shell cracking typical of an egg and there is red matrix in the cracks (Typical China/Mongolia). We do need confirmation on locality to confirm. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Cropped and brightened: 2 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 egg equations: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 This one does look like and egg and it appears to be from china? RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilizedcorgi Posted April 22, 2018 Author Share Posted April 22, 2018 Wow, didn't realize how active this community was. This egg was part of an estate, so origins are not going to be concrete however it is very possible that this came from China. The measurements I took look to be around 30 cm in circumference, 10-12 cm length, 8-9 cm in width and 3-4 cm in height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 It does look like a Chinese egg. It could be a "Segnosaur" egg or Spheroolithus sp. egg. Segnosaur eggs are thought to be from Therizinosaurid dinosaurs, and Spheroolithus sp. probably from hadrosaurids. Personally, I am leaning towards Spheroolithus sp. due to the 12cm length. 1 Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilizedcorgi Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 Does weight have any bearing? 414 grams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 32 minutes ago, fossilizedcorgi said: Does weight have any bearing? 414 grams Not really, unless it is real light (plaster of paris). 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilizedcorgi Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 To be honest, I wasn't super interested in paleontology until I found this egg. So cool how active the community here is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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