Dictyoolithus Temporal range:
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Egg fossil classification | |
Basic shell type: | †Dinosauroid-spherulitic |
Oofamily: | †Dictyoolithidae |
Oogenus: | †Dictyoolithus Zhao, 1994 |
Type oospecies | |
†Dictyoolithus hongpoensis Zhao, 1994
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Dictyoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from the Cretaceous of China. It is notable for having over five superimposed layers of eggshell units. Possibly, it was laid by megalosauroid dinosaurs.