Lot 647
Five Therizinosaur Dinosaur Eggs. This original partial nest of five 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 paleontologists think that the large claws may have been used to tear apart large termite mounds.
The five eggs are 3 x 3 inches long and are still contained in their original 11 x 7 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 varying between completely inflated to one egg that is mostly flattened. Even though the shells of Therizinosaur eggs are very thin, these eggs contain between 60-100 percent of their original shell. These eggs are completely original as found and a lot of the shell is still buried beneath a thin layer of red calcite. Even the egg with about 60% shell appears to have more shell beneath the stone matrix. Therizinosaur dinosaur eggs are in great demand and much rarer than the usual Hadrosaur and even the Oviraptor dinosaur eggs.
Allow $50 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $1,750 - 2,250.
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