Tacuarembovum

Tacuarembovum
Temporal range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
Eggshell classification
Basic shell type: Ornithoid
Morphotype: Ornithoid-ratite
Oofamily: Elongatoolithidae
Oogenus: Tacuarembovum
Oospecies
  • T. oblongum Mones, 1980 (type)

Tacuarembovum is an oogenus of fossil egg from the Cretaceous of Uruguay.[1] It represents an Elongatoolithid, and pending future analysis may be found to be synonymous with another oospecies.[2]


References

  1. Mones, A. (1980) "Nuevos elementos de la paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodilia y Dinosauria)." Actas II Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1:265-277 (in Spanish)
  2. Batista, A. (2012). "Análisis morfológico y sistemático de Tacuarembovum oblongum Mones 1980 y otras ooformas similares (Dinosauria), cretácico tardío? de Uruguay: implicancias." Graduate Thesis for Universidad de la República (Uruguay).
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