Alternative combinations: Oolithes bathonica, Testudofiexoolithus bathonicae
Full reference: J. Buckman. 1859. On some fossil reptilian eggs from the Great Oolite of Cirencester. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:107-110
Belongs to Oolithes according to W. Carruthers 1871
See also Buckman 1859, Etheridge 1882, Hirsch 1996, Van Straelen 1928 and Woodward and Sherborn 1890
Sister taxa: Oolithes nanhsiungensis, Oolithes obtusatus, Oolithes sphaericus
Type specimen: BM(NH) 37987IHEC 186, an egg. Its type locality is Hare-Bushes Quarry, stage 4, which is in a Bathonian open shallow subtidal carbonate in the Bath Oolite Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Hare-Bushes Quarry, stage 4
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