Laevisoolithidae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Egg fossil classification Edit this classification
Basic shell type: Ornithoid
Morphotype: Ornithoid-ratite
Oofamily: †Laevisoolithidae
Mikhailov, 1991
Oogenera

Laevisoolithidae is an oofamily of fossil eggs belonging to the Ornithoid-ratite morphotype. Their eggshells are smooth and very thin, typically less than a millimeter thick. Laevisoolithids may be the eggs of Enantiornithid birds.[2][3] Eggs of the family were found in the Grès à Reptiles Formation of France and the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.

References

  1. ^ Garcia, G., Tabuce, R., Cappetta, H., Marandat, B., Bentaleb, I., Benabdallah, A., & Vianey-Liaud, M. (2003). "First record of dinosaur eggshells and teeth from the North-West African Maastrichtian (Morocco)." Palaeovertebrata 32(2-4): 59-69.
  2. ^ K. E. Mikhailov. 1991. Classification of fossil eggshells of amniotic vertebrates. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36(2):193-238
  3. ^ Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Emily S. Bray & Karl E. Hirsch (1996). "Parataxonomy of fossil egg remains (Veterovata): basic principles and applications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (4): 763–769. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011364. JSTOR 4523773.


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