Lot 886
A Half Of A Dozen Rare Dinosaur Eggs. This approximately half nest of twelve dinosaur eggs 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 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 paleontologist think that the large claws may have been used to tear apart large termite mounds.
The twelve eggs are 3.5 x 3 inches long and still contained in their original 15 x 9 inch red limestone matrix as deposited between 80-90 million years ago in the Xixia Basin of the Henan Province, China. The eggs are in excellent condition, being unhatched and not crushed. Even though the shells of Therizinosaurs eggs is very thin, these eggs contain between of 75-90 percent of their original shell. These dinosaur eggs are in great demand and very difficult to locate.
Add $75.00 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000.
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