Genre
Taxon formel Éteint

Prismatoolithus

Zhao and Li 1993

Prismatoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from the Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Maastrichtian) and possibly also the earliest Paleocene. They likely belonged to troodontids.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
58
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Prismatoolithus
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Prismatoolithus tiantaiensis eggs (IVPP V16515) on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia

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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Ornithischia Clade non classé
Prismatoolithidae Famille
Prismatoolithus Genre
Sites de découverte 58 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇪🇸 Espagne
14
🇫🇷 France
12
🇨🇳 Chine
9
🇨🇦 Canada
8
🇺🇸 États-Unis
8
🇯🇵 Japon
2
🇲🇽 Mexique
2
🇷🇺 Russie
1
🇲🇳 Mongolie
1
🇲🇦 Maroc
1
Formations géologiques
Oldman
6
Chichengshan
4
Figuerola
3
Ohyamashimo
2
Blesa
1
Ilek
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
24
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
25
Coniacien (89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)
4
Albien (113.2–100.5 Ma)
2
Aptien (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Espèces (13)
Prismatoolithus caboti 84 Ma
Prismatoolithus gebiensis 90 Ma
Prismatoolithus hanshuiensis
Prismatoolithus heyuanensis 84 Ma
Prismatoolithus hirschi 84 Ma
Prismatoolithus hukouensis 72 Ma
Prismatoolithus ilekensis 126 Ma
Prismatoolithus jenseni 72 Ma
Prismatoolithus levis 84 Ma
Prismatoolithus matellensis 72 Ma
Prismatoolithus tenuis 84 Ma
Prismatoolithus tiantaiensis 101 Ma
Prismatoolithus trempii 72 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
Z.-K. Zhao and R. Li. 1993. First record of Late Cretaceous hypsilophodontid eggs from Bayan Manduhu, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31(2):77-84
Bibliographie (32)
K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and F. Therrien, Y. Lee, K. Kubota, Y. Kobayashi, G. F. Funston, T. Khishigjav. 2023. Description and review of non-avian dinosaur eggs from Cretaceous deposits of the Mongolian Gobi Desert. Windows into Sauropsid and Synapsid Evolution: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Jacobs
J. S. Cabrera-Hernández, M. Montellano-Ballesteros, and P. D. Roy, D. E. Fastovsky. 2022. Eggshells assemblages and stable isotope composition in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) El Gallo Formation of Baja California, Mexico: Paleoenvironmental inferences. Cretaceous Research 138(78):105265 DOI ↗
M. Moreno-Azanza, L. Ezquerro, and M. Pérez-Pueyo, J. M. Gasca. 2021. Huevos de dinosaurio en la Sierra Exteriores de Huesca [Dinosaur eggs in the Sierras Exteriores of Huesca]. Lucas Mallada 23:61-81
K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and F. Therrien, T. Ikeda, K. Kubota, H. Saegusa, T. Tanaka, K. Ikuno. 2020. Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cretaceous Research 114:104519:1-14 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston and P. J. Currie. 2018. The first record of dinosaur eggshell from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Maastrichtian) of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 55(4):436-441 DOI ↗
S. Ji, L. Zhang, and L. Lu, J. Hao. 2017. The first discovery of the Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid fauna from Alxa, Inner Mongolia, China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 91(5):1908-1909 DOI ↗
P. P. Skutschas, V. D. Markova, and E. A. Boitsova, S. V. Leshchinskiy, S. V. Ivantsov, E. N. Maschenko, A. O. Averianov. 2017. The first dinosaur egg from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia. Historical Biology 31:836-844 DOI ↗
K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and H. Saegusa, T. Ikeda, C. L. DeBuhr, F. Therrien. 2016. Dinosaur eggshell assemblage from Japan reveals unknown diversity of small theropods. Cretaceous Research 57:350-363 DOI ↗
A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and A. Galobart. 2014. Diversity of theropod ootaxa and its implications for the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:45-54 DOI ↗
K. Tanaka, J. Lü, and Z. Huang, Y. Kobayashi, D. Huang, D. K. Zelenitsky. 2012. Statistical approach for classification of dinosaur eggs from the Heyuan Basin at the northeast of Guandong province. Acta Geologica Sinica 86(2):294-303 DOI ↗
K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and T. E. Willamson, A. Weil, F. Therrien. 2011. Fossil eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Fruitland Formation, New Mexico. Historical Biology 23(1):41-55 DOI ↗
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
J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasca, and M. Aurell, A. Badiola, H.-A. Blain, P. Cruzado-Caballero, D. Gómez-Fernández, M. Moreno-Azanza, J. Parrilla, R. Rabal-Garcés, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. La Cantalera: an exceptional window onto the vertebrate biodiversity of the Hauterivian-Barremian transition in the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):205-224 DOI ↗
F. D. Jackson and D. J. Varricchio. 2010. Fossil eggs and eggshell from the lowermost Two Medicine Formation of western Montana, Sevenmile Hill locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(4):1142-1156 DOI ↗
M.-p. Qian, Y. Jiang, and R. Chen, Y.-g. Jiang, Y.-j. Zhang, G.-f. Xin. 2008. Late Cretaceous troodontid eggs from Tiantai, Zhejiang. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 47(2):248-255
D. K. Zelenitsky and W. J. Sloboda. 2005. Eggshells. Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
M. Aguillon-Martinez, D. Zelenitsky, and D. B. Brinkman, D. A. Eberth. 2004. Eggshell fragments from the uppermost Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Upper Cretaceous; Mexico). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):33A
R. Difley, B. Britt, and P. Policelli. 2004. A troodontid nest in the North Horn Formation, central Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):52A
X. Fang, L. Lu, and Y. Jiang, L. Yang. 2003. [Cretaceous fossil eggs from the Tiantai basin of Zhejiang, with a discussion on the extinction of dinosaurs]. Geological Bulletin of China 22(7):512-520
G. Garcia, R. Tabuce, and H. Cappetta, B. Marandat, I. Bentaleb, A. Benabdallah, M. Vianey-Liaud. 2003. First record of dinosaur eggshells and teeth from the north-west African Maastrichtian (Morocco). Palaeovertebrata 32(2–4):59-69
X. Fang, Y. Wang, and Y. Jiang. 2000. [On the Late Cretaceous fossil eggs of Tiantai, Zhejiang]. Geological Review 46(1):105-112
G. Garcia. 2000. Diversité des coquilles "minces" d'oeufs fossiles du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Diversity of fossil eggshell fragments from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 33(1):113-126 DOI ↗
G. Garcia, M. Feist, and A. Cabot, X. Valentin, M. Vianey-Liaud. 2000. Les oeufs de dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du bassin de Villeveyrac-Mèze (Hérault, France): description d'une nouvelle ooespèce de Prismatoolithus [New Prismatoolithus oospecies and other Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs from the Villeveyrac-Mèze Basin (Hérault, France)]. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 171(3):283-289 DOI ↗
D. K. Zelenitsky. 2000. Dinosaur eggs from Asia and North America. Y.-N. Lee (ed.), 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea. Paleontological Society of Korea Special Publication 4:13-26
Z.-K. Zhao. 2000. Nesting behavior of dinosaurs as interpreted from the Chinese Cretaceous dinosaur eggs. Y.-N. Lee (ed.), 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea. Paleontological Society of Korea Special Publication 4:115-126
E. S. Bray. 1999. Eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, central Utah. Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1
G. Garcia, M. Pincema, and M. Vianey-Liaud, B. Marandat, E. Lorenz, G. Cheylan, H. Cappetta, J. Michaux, J. Sudre. 1999. Découverte du premier squelette presque complet de Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) du Maastrichtien inférieur de Provence [Discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Provence (southern France)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 328:415-421 DOI ↗
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 ↗
D. K. Zelenitsky and L. V. Hills. 1996. An egg clutch of Prismatooiitlbus levis oosp. nov. from the Oldman Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Devil's Coulee, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1127-1131 DOI ↗
D. Wang and S. Zhou. 1995. [The discovery of new typical dinosaur egg fossils in Xixia Basin]. Henan Geology 13(4):262-267
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
Z.-K. Zhao and R. Li. 1993. First record of Late Cretaceous hypsilophodontid eggs from Bayan Manduhu, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31(2):77-84