Fossil Oviraptor Egg Pair

LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 88-71 MILLION YEARS B.P.

9 1/2 in. (4.82 kg, 24 cm).

Matrix containing the majority of two elongated Oviraptor philocerataops eggs, retaining their leathery surface.

Provenance

From the Nanxiong formation, China.
Previously with Shishang Corporation, Taiwan.
From a West London gentleman collector; acquired from a professional fossil company in Taiwan.

Footnotes

Oviraptor, or 'egg thief', was a small feathered bipedal theropod. Being omnivorous, it fed on plants, insects, eggs and fish. Famously mis-named upon its initial discovery in association with a nest of eggs in 1924, it is now accepted that the oviraptor was nesting, not raiding; palaeontologists have since discovered oviraptor in association with eggs containing fossil oviraptor embryos.

CONDITION

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