Eggs
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Largest Dinosaur Oviraptor Nest EverDESCRIPTION: The most rare of all dinosaurs eggs are from the top predators on the food chain. And the largest egg genus are those of Macroelongatoolithus. Then everything changed in mid 2007 with the announcement of "A Gigantic Bird-like Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China" just as Dr. Zelenitsky had predicted. ture. The paper describes the fossil remains of a huge dinosaur found in northern China that was as tall as the formidable Tyrannosaur. It would have been about 26 feet long, 16 feet tall, and weighed 3,000 pounds -- and was christened Gigantoraptor erlianensis. This has not been x-rayed so we do not know if any of the eggs contain embryonic remains. Locality: Nanyang, Hanan Provence, China
This massive specimen weighs a back-breaking 259 pounds (estimated) and required a custom-made wood crate for transporting it. We have not prepared it since the new owner may be a museum or university who may wish to do the work themselves. However, we are pleased to undertake the commission if the winner desires, at a cost of $50 / hour for 40 ~ 80 hours. This egg type is identical to that in which fossilized embryo "Baby Louie" was found and subsequently featured in the May 1996 edition of National Geographic. Early on, the fossil embryo was tentatively identified as a Therizinosaur. Price: US $49,000.00 Use the following methods of payment...
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Complete Unhatched 25 Egg Oviraptor NestGENERAL DESCRIPTION: This extremely rare fossil dinosaur egg specimen is from a meat-eating Oviraptor which lived in the late Cretaceous period circa 80 million years ago and was collected in Guangdong Province, China. This specimen is of the elongatoolithidae parataxonomic family and probably of the elongatoolithus species. The confusing naming convention stems from the fact that dinosaur eggs are classified by their own family and species based solely on shell structure and type, and is completely independent of the dinosaur species suspected of having laid it. This allows for categorizing and study of the many types of egg remains without having to make tenuous links to a particular dinosaur -- which in most cases is impossible to do because of the rarity of fossilized bones within the eggs. The Oviraptor ("egg robber") was made known to the scientific community by Henry F. Osborn who reported on his 2050s expedition to Mongolia. He had found the crushed skull of an oviraptor on the top of a nest of what was thought to be a clutch of protoceratops eggs. Osborn theorized that the Oviraptor was killed by the protective protoceratops mother who caught the raptor in the act of stealing her eggs. It was only in 1993 when a team of researchers discovered a similar nest with a nearly intact mother Oviraptor fossilized in the act of caring for her nest that the egg type was correctly identified as Oviraptor, and that the Oviraptor discovered in 2050s was actually a caring parent defending her nest -- and not a thief stealing another's eggs. Locality: Central Asia RESTORATION: none in any amount, of any kind, anywhere. REPAIRS: none in any amount, of any kind, anywhere LOCATION: Colorado Springs until February when it will be exhibited at the Tucson Fossil Show. 30 DAY RETURN POLICY: If you decide within 30 days of receipt that you do not want an item purchased from me for any reason, then you can return it in as-sold condition for a refund of the selling price. SHIPPING COST Free to anywhere in the world. The specimen will be swaddled in polyurethane foam and crated. Price: US $40,500.00 Use the following methods of payment...
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