Ellipsoolithus

Ellipsoolithus
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type: Ornithoid
Morphotype: Ornithoid-ratite
Oofamily: Elongatoolithidae
Oogenus: Ellipsoolithus
Mohabey 1998

Ellipsoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. It contains only a single oospecies, E. khedaensis. The species was found in the Upper Sandy Carbonate Member of the Lameta Formation of India. These eggs were probably laid by a theropod dinosaur.

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