Largest dinosaur eggs
- WHO
- Hypselosaurus priscus
- WHAT
- 30 centimetre(s)
- WHERE
- France
- WHEN
- 1961
The largest known dinosaur eggs are those of Hypselosaurus priscus (`high ridge lizard'), a 12m (40ft) long titanosaurid which lived about 80 million years ago. Examples found in the Durance valley near Aix-en-Provence, France in October 1961 would have had, uncrushed, a length of 30 cm 12in (about the height of this page) and a diameter of 255mm (10in) (capacity 3.3litres (5.8pt).