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Fragments of Dinosaurs'eggs on the land of Font-Mars
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The majority of dinosaurs laid eggs. But until recently, only a few dinosaur eggs have been found.
In France, 1859 is the official date of the first discovery of dinosaur eggs. Since then, important discoveries in at least than 220 locations around the world have been made.
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Real size of a reconstructed Tarascosaurus' egg
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In the Languedoc region at FONT-MARS, our vineyard is planted on a soil of the type limestone-clay, where fossils of dinosaur eggs are frequenltly found : This is the witness to the nature and the history of this unique area.
The dinosaurs, did not set on their eggs, but hid them in river-banks, and incubated them in heaps of fermenting vegetation, which gave off the required heat. It is in respect to this touching past, that we name property of FONT-MARS, the soil of dinosaurs.
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Drawing of a Tarascosaurus
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