Species
Formal taxon Extinct

Cairanoolithus dughii

Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Cairanoolithidae Family
Cairanoolithus Genus
Cairanoolithus dughii Species
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇫🇷 France
8
Geological formations
Marnes Rouges Inférieures
4
Grès à Reptiles
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
6
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
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
Bibliography (6)
A. G. Sellés and À. Galobart. 2016. Reassessing the endemic European Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg Cairanoolithus. Historical Biology 28(5):583-596 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