Lot 530
RARE PAIR OF TROODON DINOSAUR EGGS. Troodon was a small predatory dinosaur about six feet long, was fast with long slender limbs and had the largest size brain for its size of any dinosaur. It was feathered with long folded arms like a bird and had large sharp retractable sickle-shaped claws on its second toe like Velociraptor. Troodon had very large eyes (perhaps nocturnal) and excellent hearing and binocular vision. It is very rare in the fossil record but some embryos have been found in these eggs confirming that they are indeed Troodon.
These two 2.85 x 1.5 inch Troodon eggs are 70-80 million years old from the Djadokta formation of Ukhaa Tolgod of Mongolia and were found buried in the Gobi desert. Troodon eggshell is extremely thin at only 1mm thick and does not preserve very well but both of these eggs appear to have more than 50% of their original shell although half of one of the eggs is still buried in the matrix. Embryonic bones have been found in at least one of the eggs from the partial nest that contained both of these eggs. These delicate eggs were laid standing up in the sand and still retain that position in their original 4X5 inch red stone matrix. This is perhaps a unique opportunity to add extremely rare dinosaur eggs from a known rare dinosaur to your collection.
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Estimated Value $1,250 - 1,500.
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