0.4" Megaloolithus Titanosaur Dinosaur Fossil Egg Shell Bouches Du Rhone France Display
Location: Bouches Du Rhone, France
Weight: 0.3 Ounces
Egg Shell Dimensions: 0.4 Inches Long, 0.4 Inches Wide, 0.1 Inches Thick.
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This is a genuine fossil.
Name: Megaloolithus
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Around 8.2 meters long.
Known locations: France and Spain.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Several incomplete specimens. Eggs have also been attributed to the genus.
Megaloolithus refers to fossilized eggs believed to have been laid by medium-sized titanosaur dinosaurs that lived in what is now Western Europe near the end of the Cretaceous Period. These eggs are generally spherical in shape and measure about thirty centimeters in diameter. Some variations found in the eggshell thickness and structure have led scientists to propose two possible explanations: either the eggs do not all come from the same dinosaur species, or the titanosaur that laid them may have experienced a nutritional deficiency, resulting in reduced calcium—and therefore thinner, less robust—eggshells.
