Species
Formal taxon Extinct

Megaloolithus jabalpurensis

Khosla and Sahni 1995

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
19
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Massopoda Unranked clade
Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
Sauropoda Unranked clade
Megaloolithidae Family
Megaloolithus Genus
Megaloolithus jabalpurensis Species
Fossil sites 19 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇳 India
10
🇦🇷 Argentina
9
Geological formations
Lameta
10
Allen
3
Río Colorado
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
13
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
6
Synonyms (2)
Megaloolithus matleyi subjective synonym of Megaloolithus jabalpurensis
Megaloolithus patagonicus subjective synonym of Megaloolithus jabalpurensis
Bibliography
Original description
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
Bibliography (7)
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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 DOI ↗
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
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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
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 DOI ↗
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