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Preprismatoolithus

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Eggshell present in great abundance at the so-called "Young Egg Locality" which seems to have been a dinosaur nesting ground. Congeneric eggshell fossils are found at additional Colorado sites including the Fruita Paleontological Area, the Uravan Locality and Garden Park.
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Ribeiro, V., Mateus O., Holwerda F., Araújo R., & Castanhinha R. (2013). Two new theropod egg sites from the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation, Portugal. Historical Biology. (ahead-of-print), 1-12.
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is described by John Foster as being "of the prismatic basic type," with subspherical eggs about 10 cm (4 inches) in diameter. This oospecies has been initially attributed to "
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Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World.
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Egg fossil classification
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Dinosauroid-prismatic
Prismatoolithidae
Preprismatoolithus
Late Jurassic
oogenus
hypsilophodontid
Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation




ISBN
978-0-253-34870-8
Taxon identifiers
Wikidata
Q7240668

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