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Spheroolithus albertensis ✝
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| Rank | species (PBDB) | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Spheroolithidae : Spheroolithus : Spheroolithus albertensis | ||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 83.6 - 72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 83.5 - 70.6 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) | D. K. Zelenitsky and L. V. Hills. 1997. Normal and pathological eggshells of Spheroolithus albertensis, oosp. nov., from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group, Late Campanian), southern Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(1):167-171 | ||||||||||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1997 | Spheroolithus albertensis Zelenitsky and Hills p. 167 fig. 2 |
| 2000 | Spheroolithus albertensis Zelenitsky p. 23 |
| 2001 | Spheroolithus albertensis Hirsch p. 387 |
| 2005 | Spheroolithus albertensis Zelenitsky and Sloboda p. 402 |
| 2010 | Spheroolithus albertensis Jackson and Varricchio p. 1144 |
| 2014 | Spheroolithus albertensis Moreno-Azanza et al. p. 84 |
| 2014 | Spheroolithus albertensis Sellés et al. p. 725 |
References
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!
