Family
Formal taxon Extinct

Cairanoolithidae

Sellés and Galobart 2016

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
17
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Cairanoolithidae
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Cairanoolithus, a fossil dinosaur egg. Took the photo at Fossil Show, Munich © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Cairanoolithidae Family
Fossil sites 17 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇫🇷 France
15
🇪🇸 Spain
2
Geological formations
Marnes Rouges Inférieures
4
Grès à Reptiles
1
Grès de Labarre
1
Grey Garumnian
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
15
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. G. Sellés and À. Galobart. 2016. Reassessing the endemic European Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg Cairanoolithus. Historical Biology 28(5):583-596 DOI ↗
Bibliography (8)
A. G. Sellés and À. Galobart. 2016. Reassessing the endemic European Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg Cairanoolithus. Historical Biology 28(5):583-596 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
R. Cousin. 2002. Organisation des pontes de dinosauriens de la parafamille des Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979 [Organization of dinosaur clutches of the parafamily Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979]. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique du Normandie et Amis du Muséum du Havre 89(1–4):1-177
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 DOI ↗
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
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