Alternative combinations: Prismatoolithus tenius, Prismatoolithus tenuous
Full reference: M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149
Belongs to Prismatoolithus according to D. K. Zelenitsky and L. V. Hills 1996
See also Garcia and Vianey-Liaud 2001, Moreno-Azanza et al. 2014, Sellés et al. 2014, Skutschas et al. 2017, Suñer et al. 2008, Tanaka et al. 2011, Tanaka et al. 2016, Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994, Vianey-Liaud et al. 2003, Vianey-Liaud and López-Martínez 1997 and Wang et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Prismatoolithus caboti, Prismatoolithus gebiensis, Prismatoolithus hanshuiensis, Prismatoolithus heyuanensis, Prismatoolithus hirschi, Prismatoolithus hukouensis, Prismatoolithus ilekensis, Prismatoolithus jenseni, Prismatoolithus levis, Prismatoolithus matellensis, Prismatoolithus tiantaiensis, Prismatoolithus trempii
Type specimen: PHM-1,, an egg (radial thin-section of eggshell). Its type locality is Pioch Herbaut (PHM), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in France.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (8 collections), Spain (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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