Parafaveoloolithus

Parafaveoloolithus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Eggshell classification
Basic shell type: Dinosauroid-spherulitic
Oofamily: Faveoloolithidae
Oogenus: Parafaveoloolithus
Zhang, 2010
Oospecies
  • P. microporus Zhang, 2010 (type)
  • P. xipingensis Fang et al. 1998
  • P. macroporus Zhang, 2010
  • P. tiansicunensis Zhang, 2010
  • P. guoqingsiensis Fang et al. 2000
  • P. pingxiangensis Zou et al. 2013

Parafaveoloolithus is an oogenus of Faveoloolithid fossil egg, known from the Cretaceous of China.[1]

Description

Parafaveoloolithus is diagnosed by its spherical or oval eggs, with a single layer of eggshell units (or a two superimposed layers in some portions). The growth lines of the shell units are undefined. Shell units are prismatic, and separated near the surface of the eggshell.[1]

Oospecies

Parafaveoloolithus contains six oospecies:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Zhang, S.K. 2010. A parataxonomic revision of the Cretaceous faveoloolithid eggs of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(3):203-219
  2. Fang X.S., Lu L.W., Cheng Z.W., et al. (1998) On the Cretaceous eggs of Xixia County, Henan Province. Beijing : Geological Publishing House. 1-125.
  3. 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.
  4. Zou S.L, Wang Q., and Wang X.L. (2013) "A new oospecies of parafaveoloolithids from the Pingxiang Basin, Jiangxi Province of China." Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 51(2):102-106.
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