Eggshell Fossils of Dinosaurs and Crocodiles from 100 Million Years Ago Unearthed in Utah

On the border between Utah and Colorado in the USA, you can come face to face with a carnivorous Allosaurus and many other prehistoric lizards - but don't worry, they're stuck in the rocks where they were found.

Eggshell Fossils of Dinosaurs and Crocodiles from 100 Million Years Ago Unearthed in Utah

A team of paleontologists from Lake Forest College, Stellenbosch University, University of Minnesota, and North Carolina State University described a new population of fossil eggshells, members of the formation of cedar mountains, a well-known unit among scientists studying early lobular epochs. A 100 million-year-old dinosaur eggshell fragment from a Mussantit member of Cedar Mountain Formation. [...] Source The post Eggshell Fossils of Dinosau…

100-Million-Year-Old Eggs Found in Utah—And They’re Unlike Anything Seen Before!

Paleontologists have unearthed a surprising variety of dinosaur eggshells in Utah that could completely reshape what we know about life in Cretaceous North America. The discovery, made in the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, revealed six distinct types of fossilized eggshells. Until now, scientists believed only one type had ever existed in the area. A Fossil Record Gets A Major Update For decades, just one fossil egg type—Ma…