Trachoolithus
Trachoolithus | |
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Egg fossil classification ![]() | |
Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
Oofamily: | †Elongatoolithidae |
Oogenus: | †Trachoolithus Mikhailov, 1994 |
Oospecies | |
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Trachoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. It only contains the oospecies T. faticanus, found in the Lameta Formation of India and the Dushihin Formation of Mongolia.[1]
See also[]
- List of dinosaur oogenera
References[]
- ^ Trachoolithus in the Paleobiology Database
Bibliography[]
- Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
Categories:
- Dinosaur reproduction
- Aptian life
- Maastrichtian life
- Cretaceous India
- Fossils of India
- Cretaceous Mongolia
- Fossils of Mongolia
- Fossil parataxa described in 1994
- Egg fossil stubs