Pseudomegaloolithus

Pseudomegaloolithus is an oogenus of fossil Megaloolithid egg from Morocco. It is known from eggshell fragments which are distinguished from other Megaloolithid eggs because of its thin shells, fan-shaped eggshell units, and the structure of the nodes and ridges on the eggshell surface. Some egg fragments from India, France, and Peru (some of which had previously been classified as Megaloolithus pseudomamillare) may actually represent specimens of Pseudomegaloolithus.[1]

Pseudomegaloolithus
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type: †Dinosauroid-spherulitic
Oofamily: †Megaloolithidae
Oogenus: †Pseudomegaloolithus
Vianey-Liaud & Garcia, 2003
Oospecies
  • P. atlasi

References
  1. 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


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