(Yicai Global) Dec. 27 -- Workers found several dinosaur egg fossils underground while blasting and excavating at the Ring Road construction site in Dayu county in China's southeastern province of Jiangxi on Dec. 25.

Local experts estimated that the fossilized eggs may date back to 130 million years ago, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Cultural relic protection staff from the Dayu county museum confirmed that the oval-shaped stones are dinosaur egg fossils and said that black debris next to them may be dinosaur eggshells.

"This is a nest of oviraptor fossils, and they were generally from the Cretaceous period," said Liu Xiaoming, Dayu county tungsten mineral crystal museum curator. "The nest of eggs is relatively complete with about 20 to 30 eggs."

In the Mesozoic Era's Cretaceous Period, Dayu county was a lakeshore suitable for reptiles such as dinosaurs, Liu said. People previously found dinosaur egg fossils in the nearby cities of Nankang and Ganzhou, said Liu.