Lot 825
Pair of Therizinosaurus Eggs. Therizinosaurs were the most bizarre and unusual dinosaurs. They appear to have been a plant-eating theropod related to the raptors. Therizinosaurs walked bipodally with the body, long neck, and small head of a plant-eating dinosaur, but with up to two-feet claws on their hands. What they used the large claws for is unknown. This lot contains a 4" unhatched egg with over 85% of its original shell still in its red limestone matrix, as well as a 3 ½" unhatched, crushed egg that has calcified. The importance of such calcification is that embryonic bones have been found in 5-10% of calcified eggs. The only way to know for sure is to slowly etch the egg to expose any fragile bones. Both eggs are 65-70 million years old, from the Xixia Basin, Henan Province of China. Add $20 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $500 - 900.
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