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Ovaloolithus utahensis ✝
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Rank | species (PBDB) | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ovaloolithidae : Ovaloolithus : Ovaloolithus utahensis | ||||||||||
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 72.1 - 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 70.6 - 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||
Environment | terrestrial (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Diet | herbivore (based on Ornithopoda) | ||||||||||
Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) | ||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. S. Bray. 1999. Eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, central Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:361-375 |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1999 | Ovaloolithus utahensis Bray p. 369 fig. 6 |
References
Bray E. S. (1999) Eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, central Utah, Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1, 361-375 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!