| Stromatoolithus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Egg fossil classification 
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| Basic shell type: | †Dinosauroid-spherulitic |
| Oogenus: | †Stromatoolithus Zhao et al., 1991 |
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S. albertensis
S. europaeus
S. pinglingensis
S. porcarboris
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Stromatoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg known from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Asia, Europe, and North America. They were likely laid by hadrosauroid dinosaurs.[1][2][3] The type oospecies is S. pinglingensis.[2] Other species include S. porcarboris (formerly thought to be a oospecies of Paraspheroolithus), S. albertensis, and S. europaeus (both formerly thought to be oospecies of Spheroolithus).[1][3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Zhu, Xufeng; Wang, Qiang; Wang, Xiaolin (2022). "Restudy of the original and new materials of Stromatoolithus pinglingensis and discussion on some Spheroolithidae eggs". Historical Biology. 34 (2): 283–297. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1910817. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ a b [ Stromatoolithus] at Fossilworks.org
- ^ a b Qiu, Wenjiang; Hua, Hantang; Zhao, Kui; Yao, Han; Han, Fenglu; Wu, Rui (2025-11-09). "The first discovery of Stromatoolithus pinglingensis in the Ganzhou Basin and a revision of Paraspheroolithus porcarboris". Historical Biology: 1–10. doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783. ISSN 0891-2963.
Bibliography
edit- Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
- Z. Zhao, J. Ye, H. Li, Z. Zhao, and Z. Yan. 1991. Extinction of the dinosaurs across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 29(1):1-20
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