More T. bataar egg questions

[Phillip Bigelow <n8010095@henson.cc.wwu.edu>]

>> Is _anybody_ doing site-taphonomy at
>>these valuable localities, or are the eggs just being hacked out of the
>>ground?! 
>

:Yes. see various papers in Dinosaur Eggs and Babies published last year 
:by Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-44342-3)

  I didn't recall the ?Tarbosaurus eggs were in that volume.  This comes as
good news.  While I am rooting under the desk for my buried copy, another
question comes to mind.
  Two years ago, there was a rumour running about paleo circles that the
Chinese were not as mindful of the scientific importance of the ?Tarbosaurus
egg find as they, perhaps, should have been.  The story was that the
Chinese, in their exhuberance to experience the new-found pleasures of
Capitalism and the free-market, were in essence, "mining" the egg sites, and
selling the eggs to any Western buyer that had the money. The ramifications
of this purported sell-off was that a clutch of T. bataar
eggs could be portioned out to many different buyers, thus loosing any
scientific context that the clutch may originally have had. Any truth to
this rumour? 
  And, what ever became of those purported Tarbosaurus cf. Tyrannosaurus
infantile bones found at one egg clutch in China?
  At any rate, it's nice to hear from Ken that the alleged T. bataar egg
sites are being studied taphonomically like dinosaur nests are in the U.S.