Genus
Formal taxon Extinct

Prismatoolithus

Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994

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

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
58
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
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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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Prismatoolithidae Family
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Prismatoolithus Genus
Bibliography
Original description
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