''Pseudomegaloolithus'' is an
oogenus of fossil
Megaloolithid
Megaloolithidae is an oofamily of fossil egg of the Dinosauroid-spherulitic morphotype. They probably are the eggs of sauropods.
Paleopathology
Multilayered shell
Megaloolithid eggs with multiple layers of eggshell have been preserved in the ...
egg from
Morocco
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. It is known from eggshell fragments which are distinguished from other Megaloolithid eggs because of its thin shells, fan-shaped eggshell units, and the structure of the nodes and ridges on the eggshell surface. Some egg fragments from
India
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,
France
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, and
Peru
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(some of which had previously been classified as ''
Megaloolithus pseudomamillare'') may actually represent specimens of ''Pseudomegaloolithus''.
[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]
References
Dinosaur reproduction
Egg fossils
Maastrichtian life
Cretaceous Morocco
Fossils of Morocco
Fossil parataxa described in 1997
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