EONS: COMPLETE 12-EGG OVIRAPTOR DINOSAUR NEST, ORIGINAL

EONS: COMPLETE 12-EGG OVIRAPTOR DINOSAUR NEST,  ORIGINAL!

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: This genuine rare fossil dinosaur egg specimen is from a meat-eating Oviraptor which lived in the late Cretaceous period circa 80 million years ago and was collected in Guangdong Province, China. This specimen is of the elongatoolithidae parataxonomic family and probably of the elongatoolithus species. The confusing naming convention stems from the fact that dinosaur eggs are classified by their own family and species based solely on shell structure and type, and is completely independent of the dinosaur species suspected of having laid it. This allows for categorizing and study of the many types of egg remains without having to make tenuous links to a particular dinosaur -- which in most cases is impossible to do because of the rarity of fossilized bones within the eggs. This specimen was prepared in our own paleontology laboratory to scientific standards.

The Oviraptor ("egg robber") was made known to the scientific community by Henry F. Osborn who reported on his 2050s expedition to Mongolia. He had found the crushed skull of an oviraptor on the top of a nest of what was thought to be a clutch of protoceratops eggs. Osborn theorized that the Oviraptor was killed by the protective protoceratops mother who caught the raptor in the act of stealing her eggs. It was only in 1993 when a team of researchers discovered a similar nest with a nearly intact mother Oviraptor fossilized in the act of caring for her nest that the egg type was correctly identified as Oviraptor, and that the Oviraptor discovered in 2050s was actually a caring parent defending her nest -- and not a thief stealing another's eggs. See Science Magazine Vol. 266 November 4, 1994 or Nature Magazine, Vol. 378, December 21-28, 1995 for additional discussion and photos of this type of egg.

The following photo shows the top layer an unprepared Oviraptor nest (source: "The Fossils of China" ISBN 7-03-009288-0).This nest is shown for comparison purposes and is not the nest for sale.

THIS LISTING IS FOR A GENUINE, RARE, US PALEO LABORATORY PREPARED DINOSAUR EGG NEST:

Locality: Central Asia
Age: Middle to Late Cretaceous
Basic Shell Type: Ornithoid
Egg Genus: elongatoolithidae (parataxonomic family)
Egg Species: prob. elongatoolithus
Dinosaur genus: Oviraptor
Length: 18 inches
Width: 15 inches
Height: 6 inches
Weight: 57.5 pounds

I also sell an exact hand-painted replica of this nest (available in my eBay store for $330) but this listing is for the ORIGINAL GENUINE NEST. 

A compete nest like this is vastly more rare than a flawless 5-carat diamond, but our society values that relatively common diamond for 10x more than a one-of-a-kind rarity like this.

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