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Ashorocetus/sandbox/Faveoloolithidae; Temporal range: Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type:	†Dinosauroid-spherulitic
Oofamily:	†Faveoloolithidae; Zhao & Ding, 1976
Oogenera
	Duovallumoolithus; Faveoloolithus (Type); Hemifaveoloolithus; Parafaveoloolithus; Propagoolithus; Youngoolithus;

Faveoolithidae is an oofamily of dinosaur egg.

Description

Paleobiology and Parenting

Classification

Distribution

History

The earliest discoveries of faveoloolithid eggs were from the Gobi desert in Mongolia, reported by the Soviet paleontologist A. Sochava in 1969 and 1971. He was working prior to the modern parataxonomic system for classifying fossil eggs, and group these finds as "multicanaliculate". In 1971, faveoloolithid eggs began to be discovered in Ningxia, China, as well. In 1976, the Chinese paleontologists Zhao Zikui and Ding Shangren named the oofamily and oospecies Faveoloolithus ningxiaensis for these eggs, using Zhao's classification scheme for fossil eggs into parataxonomic groupings similar to Linnaean taxonomy. Zhao and Ding recognized that the Mongolian multicanaliculate eggs should also be classified in this oofamily.^[1]

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References

^ Zhao, Zikui; Ding, Shangren (1976). "Discovery of the Dinosaurian Egg-shells from Alxa, Ningxia and its Stratigraphical Significance" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 14 (1): 42–44.
^ Mikhailov, Konstantin (1994). "Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". In Carpenter, Kenneth; Hircsh, Karl F.; Horner, John R. (eds.). Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 88–115.

Sources

Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.

[Zhao_and_Ding_1976-1] Zhao, Zikui; Ding, Shangren (1976). "Discovery of the Dinosaurian Egg-shells from Alxa, Ningxia and its Stratigraphical Significance" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 14 (1): 42–44.

[Mikhailov_1994-2] Mikhailov, Konstantin (1994). "Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". In Carpenter, Kenneth; Hircsh, Karl F.; Horner, John R. (eds.). Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 88–115.

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