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Sale price (USD) Original Adjusted [5] Unidentified Nest with 10 eggs Found in China Bonhams: September 15, 1993: London $76,000 $160,299 Purchaser was an anonymous American buyer. Collector also bought a set of 5 eggs at same auction for $18,750. [6] [7] Sue [a] (FMNH PR 2081) Tyrannosaurus rex: 90% of a skeleton
Many ancient reptile groups are known from egg fossils including crocodilians, dinosaurs, and turtles. [3] Some ancient reptiles, like ichthyosaurs [8] and plesiosaurs [9] are known to have given live birth and are therefore not anticipated to have left behind egg fossils. Dinosaur eggs are among the most well known kind of fossil reptile eggs. [3]
The dinosaur nest, a reconstruction from the National History Museum in London. Unlike most modern eggs, many dinosaur eggs had a rough texture formed by nodes and ridges ornamenting the surface of their shell. [15] This is predominant in Cretaceous dinosaur eggs, but very rare in eggs from the Jurassic or Triassic. [24]
Paleontologists found 100 eggs and 80 skeletons from a dinosaur called Mussaurus at a site in Patagonia, suggesting the animals lived in groups.
The previous record for the smallest non-avian dinosaur egg, according to Guinness World Records, measures 45-by-20 millimeters (about 1.77-by-0.79 inches). Discovered in Japan's Tamba City, this ...
Elongatoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur eggs found in the Late Cretaceous formations of China and Mongolia. Like other elongatoolithids, they were laid by small theropods (probably oviraptorosaurs), and were cared for and incubated by their parents until hatching.