Dendroolithus
Oogenus of dinosaur egg
Dendroolithus Temporal range: Cenomanian-Maastrichtian ~99–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Dendroolithus | |
Egg fossil classification ![]() | |
Basic shell type: | †Dinosauroid-spherulitic |
Oofamily: | †Dendroolithidae |
Oogenus: | †Dendroolithus Zhao and Li, 1988 |
Type oospecies | |
†Dendroolithus wangdianensis | |
Oospecies | |
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Dendroolithus is an oogenus of Dendroolithid dinosaur egg found in the late Cenomanian Chichengshan Formation (Tiantai Group), in the Gong-An-Zhai and Santonian Majiacun Formations of China and the Maastrichtian Nemegt and Campanian Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia.[1][2] They can be up to 162 mm long and 130 mm wide.[3] These eggs may have been laid by a Therizinosaur, Sauropod, or Ornithopod.[4] The oospecies "D." shangtangensis was originally classified as Dendroolithus, however, it has since been moved to its own distinct oogenus, Similifaveoloolithus.[5] This oogenus is related with embryos of the theropod Torvosaurus[6]
References
- ^ Paleobiology Database
- ^ Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
- ^ Z. Zhao and Z. Li. 1988. A new structural type of the dinosaur eggs from Anlu County, Hubei Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 26(2):107-115
- ^ Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Emily S. Bray & Karl E. Hirsch (1996). "Parataxonomy of fossil egg remains (Veterovata): basic principles and applications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (4): 763–769. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011364. JSTOR 4523773.
- ^ Wang Qiang, Zhao Zi-kui, Wang Xiao-lin, and Jiang Yan-gen. (2011) "New ootypes of dinosaur eggs from the Late Cretaceous in Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, China." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(4):446-449.
- ^ Alves, L. C.; Schell, N.; Beckmann, F.; Mateus, Octávio; Martins, Rui M. S.; Castanhinha, Rui; Araújo, Ricardo (30 May 2013). "Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal". Scientific Reports. 3: 1924. doi:10.1038/srep01924. PMC 3667465. PMID 23722524.
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