Genus
Formal taxon Extinct

Paradictyoolithus

Wang et al. 2012

Paradictyoolithus is an oogenus of dictyoolithid dinosaur egg from the Zhejiang Province, China. They are nearly spherical eggs, measuring up to 13.9 cm (5.5 in) in diameter, and have a thin eggshell. Their shells are made up of three or four superimposed layers of eggshell units. The two known oospecies are distinguished mainly by their pore structure.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Dictyoolithidae Family
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Paradictyoolithus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
2
Geological formations
Chichengshan
2
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Paradictyoolithus xiaxishanensis 101 Ma
Paradictyoolithus zhuangqianensis 101 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
X.-l. Wang, Q. Wang, and S.-x. Jiang, X. Cheng, J.-l. Zhang, Z.-k. Zhao, Y.-g. Jiang. 2012. Dinosaur egg faunas of the Upper Cretaceous terrestrial red beds of China and their stratigraphical significance. Journal of Stratigraphy 36(2):400-416
Bibliography (1)
Q. Wang, Z.-K. Zhao, and X.-L. Wang, S.-K. Zhang, Y.-G. Jiang. 2013. New forms of dictyoolithids from the Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province of China and a parataxonomic revision of the dictyoolithids. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(1):43-54