Famille
Taxon formel Éteint

Cairanoolithidae

Sellés and Galobart 2016

Cairanoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg which is found in Southwestern Europe. The eggs are large and spherical. Their outer surface is either smooth, or covered with a subdued pattern of ridges interspersed with pits and grooves. Multiple fossil egg clutches are known but the nest structure is unclear.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
17
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Cairanoolithidae
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Cairanoolithus, a fossil dinosaur egg. Took the photo at Fossil Show, Munich © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Ornithischia Clade non classé
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Cairanoolithidae Famille
Sites de découverte 17 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇫🇷 France
15
🇪🇸 Espagne
2
Formations géologiques
Marnes Rouges Inférieures
4
Grès à Reptiles
1
Grès de Labarre
1
La Posa
1
Grey Garumnian
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
15
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
A. G. Sellés and À. Galobart. 2016. Reassessing the endemic European Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg Cairanoolithus. Historical Biology 28(5):583-596 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (8)
A. G. Sellés and À. Galobart. 2016. Reassessing the endemic European Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg Cairanoolithus. Historical Biology 28(5):583-596 DOI ↗
A. G. Sellés and B. Vila. 2015. Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):125-139 DOI ↗
A. G. Sellés, A. M. Bravo, and X. Delclòs, F. Colombo, X. Martí, J. Ortega-Blanco, C. Parellada, À. Galobart. 2013. Dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Coll de Nargó area, Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Oodiversity, biostratigraphy and their implications. Cretaceous Research 40(1):10-20 DOI ↗
V. Díez Díaz, G. Garcia, and F. Knoll, X. Pereda Suberbiola, X. Valentin. 2012. New cranial remains of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Fox-Amphoux-Métisson (Var, SE France). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123(4):626-637 DOI ↗
R. Cousin. 2002. Organisation des pontes de dinosauriens de la parafamille des Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979 [Organization of dinosaur clutches of the parafamily Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979]. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique du Normandie et Amis du Muséum du Havre 89(1–4):1-177
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 DOI ↗
M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149
M. Vianey-Liaud, P. Mallan, and O. Buscail, C. Montgelard. 1994. Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge