Testudoflexoolithus

Testudoflexoolithus is an oogenus of fossil turtle egg, containing two oospecies: T. bathonicae and T. agassizi.[1][2]

Testudoflexoolithus
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic-Pleistocene
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type: †Testudoid
Morphotype: †Spheruflexibilis
Oofamily: †Testudoflexoolithidae
Oogenus: †Testudoflexoolithus
Oospecies
  • †T. bathonicae
  • †T. agassizi

References
  1. Hirsch , K.F. (1996). "Parataxonomic Classification of Fossil Chelonian and Gecko Eggs." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16(4):752-762.
  2. Lawver, D.R., and F.D. Jackson. (2014). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtle Reproduction: Eggs, Embryos, Nests and Copulating Pairs." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55(2):215–236.


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