Lot 756
A Rare Therizinosaur Dinosaur Egg. This rare dinosaur egg is very distinctive in being from the rare and poorly understood class of dinosaurs known as Therizinosaurs. Therizinosaurs were some of the strangest looking dinosaurs having some features of a plant eating dinosaur and some features of a theropod dinosaur. They had a small skull on a long neck with a large gut which resembled a plant eating dinosaur, but also were bipedal, had filamentous feathers, and extremely large hand claws up to three feet long in the largest species, like a theropod dinosaur. Embryos have been found in some of the eggs of this shape so we know that they belong to this strange dinosaur which probably was a plant eating dinosaur although some paleontologists think that the large claws may have been used to tear apart large termite mounds or tear through tough vegetation.
This egg is2.75 x 2.5 inches long and was deposited between 80-90 million years ago in the Xixia Basin of the Henan Province, China. This mottled brown egg is in excellent condition being unhatched and not crushed like most found. Even though the shell of Therizinosaur eggs is very thin, this egg contains between over 90 percent of its original shell on the top side with some more shell still buried in the matrix on the bottom side. Therizinosaur dinosaur eggs are much scarcer than Hadrosaur or Oviraptor eggs and are rarely offered for sale.
Add $20 for domestic shipping. Estimated Value $550 - 700
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