Pseudogeckoolithus

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Pseudogeckoolithus
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
Egg fossil classification Edit this classification
Basic shell type: Dinosauroid-prismatic
Oogenus: Pseudogeckoolithus
Vianey-Liaud and López-Martínez, 1997
Oospecies
  • P. nodosus
  • ?P. tirbouliensis[1]

Pseudogeckoolithus is an

geckoid type. It is possible that these eggs represent a new basic group of fossil eggs.[3]

References

  1. ^ Vianey-Liaud, M., and G. Garcia. (2003). "Diversity among North African Dinosaur Eggshells." Palaeovertebrata, Montpellier, 32 (2-4): 171-188.
  2. ^ Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
  3. ^ M. Vianey-Liaud and N. López-Martínez. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1157-1171