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Dinosaur Oviraptor Egg Replica

Oviraptor philoceratops (egg)
Age: Late Cretaceous
Discovered: Mongolia
Size: 6in/15cm
Cost: $95
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Notes: Oviraptor is a very unique dinosaur with some rather strange features. Instead of teeth it has a beak and something not seen in any other dinosaur, two teeth in the roof of its mouth. The reason it got its name is that when it was first discovered Oviraptor was sitting on a nest of eggs. It was thought it was stealing the eggs of another dinosaur. Years later, it was found that the eggs were its own and that it was trying to protect them from an approaching sandstorm. Oviraptor has another unusual feature - it has a thin crest of bone on its forehead. This crest seems to have grown and changed throughout its entire life. It may have been used as a form of individual identification or to differentiate gender. Also, different species of the Oviraptor genus had different crests. It is not clear what Oviraptor ate. Since it was probably not eggs, and it had very strong jaws, some think it would have eaten shellfish that it could easily crack open. Others argue that it must have been an herbivore as its skull did not show characteristics for meat eating. Of particular note is that an as yet undescribed North American Oviraptor was discovered in 1996 in South Dakota.
Item#: dino-oviraptor-egg-m04-va

Dinosaur Embryo Replica

Titanosaurus Embryo (egg)
Age: late Cretaceous
Discovered: India
Size: 3.9 in / 9.8 cm
Cost: $95
Notes: Titanosaurus was among the last of the giant sauropods to walk the Earth. This was a giant plant-eater from the same family as Argentinosaurus. It was probably related to dinosaurs that traveled from South America when it was still connected to Africa. The entire family of these Cretaceous giants is named after this dinosaur, even though only a few bones of Titanosaurus have ever been found. Titanosaurus was a heavily built sauropod, as is typical for this family. Although some members of this family had scutes, it isn't known if any were present on this animal. A number of species exist for this genus and several genera are attributed to the titanosauria.
Item#: dinosaur-embryo-mg12a-va



Time Chart 
Period 
Millions of Years 
Period 
Millions of Years 
Pre-Cambrian 
570-4.5 Billion 
Cretaceous 
135.0 
Cambrian 
500.0 
Paleocene 
60.0 
Ordovician 
430.0 
Eocene 
55.0 
Silurian 
400.0 
Oligocene 
36.0 
Devonian 
345.0 
Miocene 
26.0 
Carboniferous 
310.0 
Pliocene 
6.0 
Permian 
280.0 
Pleistocene 
2.0 
Triassic 
225.0 
Holocene 
10,000-
Recent
 
Jurassic 
190.0 
  
  


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