Genus
Formal taxon Extinct

Hemifaveoloolithus

Wang et al. 2011

Hemifaveoloolithus is an oogenus of fossil dinosaur egg from the Tiantai basin in Zhejiang Province, China. It is a faveoloolithid, having spherical eggs roughly 13 cm in diameter. The shell is distinctive for being composed of four or five superimposed layers of shell units, and the honeycomb-like arrangement of pore canals.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Faveoloolithidae Family
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Hemifaveoloolithus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Chichengshan
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Hemifaveoloolithus muyushanensis 101 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
Q. Wang, Z.-K. Zhao, and X.-L. Wang, Y.-G. Jiang. 2011. New ootypes of dinosaur eggs from the Late Cretaceous in Tiantai Bain, Zhejiang Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(4):446-449
Bibliography (1)
Q. Wang, Z.-K. Zhao, and X.-L. Wang, Y.-G. Jiang. 2011. New ootypes of dinosaur eggs from the Late Cretaceous in Tiantai Bain, Zhejiang Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(4):446-449