Porituberoolithusis anoogenusofdinosaur eggfound in the lateCampanianOldman FormationandDinosaur Park FormationofAlberta,the Fossil Forest Member of theFruitland FormationinNew Mexico,the Upper Shale Member of theAguja FormationinTexasandCerro del Pueblo Formation(Difunta Group) of Mexico. It was originally described as distinct from theElongatoolithidson the basis of its ornamentation, but it was listed as a member of that oofamily by Wang et al. 2010.[1][2]It is very similar toSubtiliolithus,but has a thicker shell.[2]
| Porituberoolithus Temporal range:late Campanian
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Egg fossil classification
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| Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
| Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
| Oogenus: | †Porituberoolithus Zelenitsky, Hills & Currie, 1996 |
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See also
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edit- ^Q. Wang, X.-L. Wang, Z.-K. Zhao and Y.-G. Jiang. 2010.A new oogenus of Elongatoolithidae from the Upper Cretaceous Chichengshan Formation of Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province.Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(2):111-118
- ^abD. K. Zelenitsky, L. V. Hills, and P. J. Currie. (1996). Parataxonomic classification of ornithoid eggshell fragments from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group; Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1655-1667
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