Re: egg morphology and diagnosis

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>]

Sorry my message came through funny due to my unfriendly 
computer and its tempremental software:'-(


> my message:- 
> I have one of these elongated eggs (approcimately 18 inches long if 
I 
> remember correctly).  I know of no direct evidence to suggest that 
these 
> were theropod eggs other than what people would like them to be.  
One 
> specimen I have heard of with 'bones' may in fact just have shell 
fragments 
> poking throught the sediment.  The shell structure and texture is 
very 
> similar to the eggs that were previously thought to be those of 
> *Protoceratops* and I thought they may represent something akin to 
the 
> larger ceratopians.  I am ?obviously? wrong here:-*
> 


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk

The first law of Geology is the law of supposition.
(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)