Classification
Dinosauria
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Saurischia
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Sauropodomorpha
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Massopoda
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Sauropodiformes
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Sauropoda
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Megaloolithidae
Famille
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Megaloolithus
Genre
Sites de découverte 183 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien
(72.2–66 Ma)
155
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
24
Coniacien
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Hauterivien
(132.6–125.77 Ma)
2
Bathonien
(168.2–165.3 Ma)
1
Espèces (16)
Megaloolithus mamillare
84 Ma
Megaloolithus megadermus
72 Ma
Megaloolithus petralta
90 Ma
Megaloolithus siruguei
84 Ma
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Bibliographie
Description originale
K. E. Mikhailov. 1991. Classification of fossil eggshells of amniotic vertebrates. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36(2):193-238
Bibliographie (38)
H. Dhiman, V. Verma, and L. R. Singh, V. Miglani, D. K. Jha, P. Sanyal, S. K. Tandon, G. V. R. Prasad. 2023. New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: palaeobiology and taphonomy. PLoS One 18(1):e0278242:1-40
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M. Moreno-Azanza, L. Ezquerro, and M. Pérez-Pueyo, J. M. Gasca. 2021. Huevos de dinosaurio en la Sierra Exteriores de Huesca [Dinosaur eggs in the Sierras Exteriores of Huesca]. Lucas Mallada 23:61-81
F. Sanguino, F. Gascó-Lluna, and A. Pérez-García, F. Ortega. 2021. Ootaxonomy of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs from Poyos (Sacedón, Guadalajara, Spain). Lucas Mallada 23:223-224
V. A. Aglawe and P. Lakra. 2018. Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaur eggs Megaloolithus cylindricus from Salbardi-Ghorpend area, Betul district, Madhya Pradesh. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 63(2):191-196
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R. Vullo, G. Garcia, and P. Godefroit, A. Cincotta, X. Valentin. 2018. Mistralazhdarcho maggii, gen. et sp. nov., A New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeastern France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(4):1-16
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M. Moreno-Azanza, J. M. Gasca, and I. Díaz-Martínez, B. Bauluz Lázaro, J. I. Canudo Sanagustín, A. Fernández, F. Pérez-Lorente. 2016. A multi-ootaxic assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous of the Cameros Basin (La Rioja; Northern Spain). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 31(2):305-320
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M. Moreno-Azanza, B. Bauluz, and J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasca, F. Torcida Fernandez-Baldor. 2016. Combined use of electron and light microscopy techniques reveals false secondary shell units in Megaloolithidae eggshells. PLoS One 11(5):e0153026:1-17
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M. S. Fernández and A. Khosla. 2015. Parataxonomic review of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells belonging to the oofamily Megaloolithidae from India and Argentina. Historical Biology 27(2):158-180
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A. G. Sellés and B. Vila. 2015. Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):125-139
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O. Verma. 2015. Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of the Cauvery Basin, southern India: Palaeodiversity and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 431:53-67
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F. M. Dalla Vecchia, R. Gaete, and V. Riera, O. Oms, A. Prieto-Márquez, B. Vila, A. Garcia Sellés, A. Galobart. 2014. The hadrosaurid record in the Maastrichtian of the eastern Tremp Syncline (Northern Spain). Hadrosaurs
A. G. Sellés, A. M. Bravo, and X. Delclòs, F. Colombo, X. Martí, J. Ortega-Blanco, C. Parellada, À. Galobart. 2013. Dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Coll de Nargó area, Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Oodiversity, biostratigraphy and their implications. Cretaceous Research 40(1):10-20
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V. Díez Díaz, G. Garcia, and F. Knoll, X. Pereda Suberbiola, X. Valentin. 2012. New cranial remains of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Fox-Amphoux-Métisson (Var, SE France). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123(4):626-637
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B. Vila, V. Riera, and A. M. Bravo, O. Oms, E. Vicens, R. Estrada, A. Galobart. 2011. The chronology of dinosaur oospecies in south-western Europe: refinements from the Maastrichtian succession of the eastern Pyrenees. Cretaceous Research 32(3):378-386
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J. Escuer, X. Delclòs, and F. Colombo, A. Bravo, J. Peralba, X. Martí, J. Ortega, R. Miquela, C. Parellada. 2006. General distribution of dinosaur eggshells and clutches in the Upper Cretaceous of Coll de Nargó area (south-central Pyrenees, Spain). III International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs, Babies, and Developmental Biology. Ameghiniana 43(4 (suppl.)):17R
G. Garcia, L. Marivaux, and T. Pélissié, M. Vianey-Liaud. 2006. Earliest Laurasian sauropod eggshells. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1):99-104
B. Vila, R. Gaete, and A. Galobart, O. Oms, J. Peralba, J. Escuer. 2006. Nuevos hallazgos de dinosaurios y otros tetrápodos continentales en los Pirineos sur-centrales y orientales: resultados preliminares [New discoveries of dinosaurs and other continental tetrapods in the south-central and eastern Pyrenees: preliminary results]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno Actas:365-378
A. M. Bravo, B. Vila, and A. Galobart, O. Oms. 2005. Restos de huevos de dinosaurio en el Cretácico Superior del sinclinal de Vallcebre (Berguedà, provincia de Barcelona) [Remains of dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Vellcebre syncline (Berguedà, Barcelona province)]. Revista Española de Paleontología Num.Ext.10:49-57
D. M. Mohabey. 2005. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) nests, eggs, and dung mass (coprolites) of sauropods (titanosaurs) from India. Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
R. Tabuce, M. Vianey-Liaud, and G. Garcia. 2004. A eutherian mammal in the latest Cretaceous of Vitrolles, southern France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):347-356
L. M. Chiappe, R. A. Coria, and F. D. Jackson, L. Dingus. 2003. The Late Cretaceous nesting site of Auca Mahuevo (Patagonia, Argentina): eggs, nests, and embryos of titanosaurian sauropods. Palaeovertebrata 22(2-4):97-108
G. Garcia, R. Tabuce, and H. Cappetta, B. Marandat, I. Bentaleb, A. Benabdallah, M. Vianey-Liaud. 2003. First record of dinosaur eggshells and teeth from the north-west African Maastrichtian (Morocco). Palaeovertebrata 32(2–4):59-69
M. Vianey-Liaud, A. Khosla, and G. Garcia. 2003. Relationships between European and Indian dinosaur eggs and eggshells of the oofamily Megaloolithidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):575-585
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T. Smith, V. A. Codrea, and A. Sasaran, J. Van Itterbeeck, P. Bultynck, Z. Csiki, P. Dica, C. Farcas, A. Folie, G. Garcia, P. Godefroit. 2002. A new exceptional vertebrate site from the Late Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia, Special Issue 1:321-330
D. M. Mohabey. 2001. Indian dinosaur eggs: a review. Journal of the Geological Society of India 58(6):479-508
D. M. Mohabey. 2001. Dinosaur eggs and dung (fecal mass) from Late Cretaceous of central India: dietary implications. Geological Survey of India Special Publication 64:605-615
N. López-Martínez. 2000. Eggshell sites from the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in south-central Pyrenees (Spain). First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Extended Abstracts
E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, and H. Tong, S. Duffaud, L. Cavin, G. Garcia, D. Ward, l.'Association culturelle archéologique et paléontologique de Cruzy. 1999. Un nouveau gisement de vertébrés du Crétacé supérieur à Cruzy (Hérault, Sud de la France) [A new Late Cretaceous vetebrate locality at Cruzy (Hérault, southern France)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 328:203-208
G. Garcia, M. Pincema, and M. Vianey-Liaud, B. Marandat, E. Lorenz, G. Cheylan, H. Cappetta, J. Michaux, J. Sudre. 1999. Découverte du premier squelette presque complet de Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) du Maastrichtien inférieur de Provence [Discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Provence (southern France)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 328:415-421
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G. Garcia. 1998. Les coquilles d'oeufs de dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France: Diversité, paléobiologie, biochronologie et paléoenvironnements. 1
D. M. Mohabey. 1998. Systematics of Indian Upper Cretaceous dinosaur and chelonian eggshells. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):348-362
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P. M. Sander, C. Peitz, and J. Gallemi, R. Cousin. 1998. Dinosaurs nesting on a red beach?. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris: Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 327:67-74
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J. O. Calvo, S. Engelland, and S. E. Heredia, L. Salgado. 1997. First record of dinosaur eggshells (?Sauropoda–Megaloolithidae) from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. GAIA 14:23-32
M. Vianey-Liaud and N. López-Martínez. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1157-1171
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D. M. Mohabey. 1996. A new oospecies, Megaloolithus matleyi, from the Lameta Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, India, and general remarks on the palaeoenvironment and nesting behaviour of dinosaurs. Cretaceous Research 17:183-196
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A. Khosla and A. Sahni. 1995. Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 40:87-102
M. Vianey-Liaud, P. Mallan, and O. Buscail, C. Montgelard. 1994. Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149