Apheloolithus

Apheloolithus is an oogenus of fossil eggs from the Late Cretaceous Yuanpu and Pingling Formations of the Nanxiong Basin. Amateur paleontologist Donald Glut, in the appendix of his dinosaur encyclopedia, was unable to find the initial description of it, and speculated that it may not be a valid oogenus.[1]

Apheloolithus
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
~72.1–66.0 Ma
Egg fossil classification
Oofamily: incertae sedis
Oogenus: †Apheloolithus
Oospecies
  • †A. shuinanensis (type)

References
  1. Glut, Donald F. (2003), "Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs", Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., pp. 613–652, ISBN 0-7864-1166-X
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