Tacuarembovum
Tacuarembovum | |
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Egg fossil classification | |
Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
Oofamily: | †Elongatoolithidae |
Oogenus: | †Tacuarembovum Mones, 1980 |
Oospecies | |
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Tacuarembovum is an oogenus of fossil egg from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Asencio Formation of Uruguay.[1] It represents an Elongatoolithid, and pending future analysis may be found to be synonymous with another oospecies.[2]
References[]
- ^ Mones, A. (1980) "Nuevos elementos de la paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodilia y Dinosauria)." Actas II Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1:265-277 (in Spanish)
- ^ Batista, A. (2012). "Análisis morfológico y sistemático de Tacuarembovum oblongum Mones 1980 y otras ooformas similares (Dinosauria), cretácico tardío? de Uruguay: implicancias." Graduate Thesis for Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Categories:
- Dinosaur reproduction
- Campanian life
- Maastrichtian life
- Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America
- Cretaceous Uruguay
- Fossils of Uruguay
- Fossil parataxa described in 1980
- Egg fossil stubs