Lot 786
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. This egg is large for a Therizinosaur being 4 x 3 inches long and was deposited between 80-90 million years ago in the Xixia Basin of the Henan Province, China. This mottled medium brown egg is in excellent condition being unhatched and just slightly crushed. Even though the shell of Therizinosaur eggs is very thin, this egg contains 90 percent of its original shell on the top side and sits on a small section of the brownish-red matrix. Therizinosaur dinosaur eggs are much scarcer than Hadrosaur or Oviraptor eggs and are rarely offered for sale.
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Estimated Value $350 - 500.
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