Dendroolithus
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| Dendroolithus | |
Egg fossil classification 
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| Basic shell type: | †Dinosauroid-spherulitic |
| Oofamily: | †Dendroolithidae |
| Oogenus: | †Dendroolithus Zhao and Li, 1988 |
| Type oospecies | |
| †Dendroolithus wangdianensis | |
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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
[edit | edit source]- ^ 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
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- ^ 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.
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