Dictyoolithus

Dictyoolithus
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Egg fossil classification Edit this classification
Basic shell type: Dinosauroid-spherulitic
Oofamily: Dictyoolithidae
Oogenus: Dictyoolithus
Zhao, 1994
Type oospecies
Dictyoolithus hongpoensis
Zhao, 1994

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.