Genus
Formal taxon Extinct

Dispersituberoolithus

Zelenitsky et al. 1996

Dispersituberoolithus is an oogenus of fossil egg, which may have been laid by a bird or non-avian theropod.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Dispersituberoolithus
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Pleuroceras solare, Amaltheidae; Pyritic specimen; Diameter 3.2 cm; Upper Pliensbachian, Lower Jurassic; Little Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany. own collection, therefore not geocoded. © Llez (H. Zell). · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Dispersituberoolithus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇽 Mexico
1
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
El Gallo
1
Oldman
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Dispersituberoolithus exilis 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
D. K. Zelenitsky, L. V. Hills, and P. J. Currie. 1996. Parataxonomic classification of ornithoid eggshell fragments from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group; Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1655-1667 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
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 ↗
D. K. Zelenitsky, L. V. Hills, and P. J. Currie. 1996. Parataxonomic classification of ornithoid eggshell fragments from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group; Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1655-1667 DOI ↗