Re: tyrannosaurus eggs

[Crpntr@ix.netcom.com (Kenneth Carpenter)]

NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

>Can someone please enlighten me as to the evidence that 
>T.rex/T.bataar eggs have been found?  Please also tell me what their  
>shape and surface ornimentation are.  No egg can be assigned to a  
>particular genus unless the embryonic remains have been positively  
>identified inside the egg.  Is this the case?  I have not heard of  any 
>publication of such.


there is no proof that the referred unnamed elongoolithid eggs from 
China are those of Tyrannosaurus.  Peter Larson has suggested that, but 
embryonic bones have not yet been described.  The eggs are about 40+cm 
long, 16+cm wide and have a coarse linerartuberculate-ramotuberculate 
sculpture.