Dendroolithus

Dendroolithus is an oogenus of Dendroolithid dinosaur egg native to China and 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]

Dendroolithus
Temporal range: Santonian-Campanian
Dendroolithus
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type: †Dinosauroid-spherulitic
Oofamily: †Dendroolithidae
Oogenus: †Dendroolithus
Zhao and Li, 1988
Type oospecies
Dendroolithus wangdianensis
Oospecies
  • D. dendriticus
  • D. fengguangcunensis
  • D. guoqingsiensis
  • D. microporosus
  • D. verrucarius
  • D. wangdianensis
  • D. xichuanensis

References
  1. Paleobiology Database
  2. Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
  3. 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
  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. JSTOR 4523773.
  5. 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.
  6. Alves, L. C.; Schell, N.; Beckmann, F.; Mateus, Octávio; Martins, Rui M. S.; Castanhinha, Rui; Araújo, Ricardo (30 May 2013). "Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal". Scientific Reports. 3: 1924. doi:10.1038/srep01924. PMC 3667465. PMID 23722524.


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