Ellipsoolithus
Ellipsoolithus Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Egg fossil classification ![]() | |
Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
Oofamily: | †Elongatoolithidae |
Oogenus: | †Ellipsoolithus Mohabey 1998 |
Ellipsoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg.[1] It contains only a single oospecies, E. khedaensis. The species was found in the Upper Sandy Carbonate Member of the Lameta Formation of India. These eggs were probably laid by a theropod dinosaur.[2]
See also[]
- List of dinosaur oogenera
References[]
Bibliography[]
- D. M. Mohabey. 1998. Systematics of Indian Upper Cretaceous dinosaur and chelonian eggshells. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):348-362
Categories:
- Elongatoolithids
- Dinosaur reproduction
- Maastrichtian life
- Cretaceous India
- Fossils of India
- Fossil parataxa described in 1998
- Egg fossil stubs