Biology:Prismatoolithidae

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Prismatoolithidae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Egg fossil classification e
Basic shell type: Dinosauroid-prismatic
Oofamily: Prismatoolithidae
Hirsch, 1994
Oogenera

Prismatoolithidae is an oofamily of fossil eggs. They may have been laid by ornithopods or theropods.[4][1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 N. López-Martínez and E. Vicens. 2012. A new peculiar dinosaur egg, Sankofa pyrenaica oogen. nov. oosp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous coastal deposits of the Aren Formation, South-Central Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spin. Palaeontology 55(2):325-339
  2. E. S. Bray. 1999. Eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, central Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:361-375
  3. Moreno-Azanza, M.; Canudo, J.I.; Gasca, J.M. (2014). "Unusual theropod eggshells from the Early Cretaceous Blesa Formation of the Iberian Range, Spain". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59 (4): 843–854. https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app59/app20120069.pdf. 
  4. 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. 

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