Talk:Golden Gate Highlands National Park

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[edit] Ambiguous wording

The phrase "The first examples of fossilised dinosaur eggs in the world," in Section 4 (Geology and palaeontology) is misleading, and in fact led to the erroneous claim in the August 17 "Did You Know..." section stating "that the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978?"

The first fossilised dinosaur eggs *found* in the world were found July 13, 1923 by Roy Chapman Andrews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews in Mongolia. Although they were initially misidentified as Protoceratops, the current identification of these fossilized eggs attributes them to Oviraptor, a theropod dinosaur.

The Massospondylus eggs are of Triassic age, and are certainly *older* than the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Oviraptor fossils, but they are certainly *not* the "first fossilised dinosaur eggs found."

Tadchem 12:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

That's my mistake. Apologies to all, and thanks for spotting it Tadchem. Bláthnaid 15:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)