Species
Formal taxon Extinct

Megaloolithus megadermus

Mohabey 1998

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
10
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Megaloolithidae Family
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Megaloolithus Genus
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Megaloolithus megadermus Species
Fossil sites 10 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇳 India
9
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Lameta
9
Allen
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
10
Bibliography
Original description
D. M. Mohabey. 1998. Systematics of Indian Upper Cretaceous dinosaur and chelonian eggshells. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):348-362 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
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 DOI ↗
D. M. Mohabey. 2001. Indian dinosaur eggs: a review. Journal of the Geological Society of India 58(6):479-508
D. M. Mohabey. 1998. Systematics of Indian Upper Cretaceous dinosaur and chelonian eggshells. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):348-362 DOI ↗