Genre
Taxon formel Éteint

Nanhsiungoolithus

Zhao 1975

Nanhsiungoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from the late Cretaceous of China. It belongs to the oofamily Elongatoolithidae, which means that it was probably laid by an oviraptorosaur, though so far no skeletal remains have been discovered in association with Nanhsiungoolithus. The oogenus contains only a single described oospecies, N. chuetienensis. It is fairly rare, only being known from two partially preserved nests and a few eggshell fragments.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
6
Groupe
Dinosaures
Carnivore Vivant au sol, solitaire Terrestre
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Theropoda Clade non classé
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Elongatoolithidae Famille
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Nanhsiungoolithus Genre
Sites de découverte 6 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇨🇳 Chine
5
🇲🇳 Mongolie
1
Formations géologiques
Pingling
3
Gaogou
1
Djadokhta
1
Yuanpu
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
4
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Coniacien (89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Espèces (1)
Nanhsiungoolithus chuetienensis 90 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
Z.-K. Zhao. 1975. [The microstructures of the dinosaurian eggshells of Nanxiong Basin, Guandong province. (1) On the classification of dinosaur eggs]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 13(2):105-117
Bibliographie (3)
Z. K. Zhao, X. Y. Mao, and Z. F. Chai, G. C. Yang, F. C. Zhang, Z. Yan. 2009. Geochemical environmental changes and dinosaur extinction during the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/T) transition in the Nanxiong Basin, South China: Evidence from dinosaur eggshells. Chinese Science Bulletin 54(5):806-815 DOI ↗
H. Zhao and Z. Zhao. 1998. [Dinosaur eggs from Xichuan Basin, Henan province]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36(4):282–296
Y. Ariunchimeg. 1997. Results of studies of dinosaur eggs. Abstract of Report Meeting, Mongolia-Japan Joint Paleontological Expedition