Reptilia - Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Full reference: D. K. Zelenitsky, L. V. Hills, and P. J. Currie. 1996. Parataxonomic classification of ornithoid eggshell fragments from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group; Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1655-1667
Belongs to Continuoolithus according to F. D. Jackson and D. J. Varricchio 2010
See also Agnolin et al. 2012, Currie and Koppelhus 2015, Fernández 2016, Sellés et al. 2014, Tanaka et al. 2011, Varricchio et al. 2002, Zelenitsky 2000, Zelenitsky et al. 1996 and Zelenitsky and Sloboda 2005
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: RTMP 94.157.61, an egg. Its type locality is Little Diablo's Hill, Devil's Coulee, which is in a Campanian terrestrial mudstone in the Oldman Formation of Canada.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (10: Alberta collections), United States (3: Montana)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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