Macroelongatoolithus Temporal range: Cretaceous,
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Macroelongatoolithus eggs in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien | |
Egg fossil classification ![]() | |
Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
Oofamily: | †Elongatoolithidae |
Oogenus: | †Macroelongatoolithus Li et al., 1995 |
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Oogenus synonymy |
Macroelongatoolithus is an oogenus of large theropod dinosaur eggs, representing the eggs of giant caenagnathid oviraptorosaurs. They are known from Asia and from North America. Historically, several oospecies have been assigned to Macroelongatoolithus, however they are all now considered to be a single oospecies: M. carlylensis.
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