Hemifaveoloolithus

Hemifaveoloolithus
Temporal range:
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type: †Dinosauroid-spherulitic
Oofamily: †Faveoloolithidae
Oogenus: †Hemifaveoloolithus
Wang et al., 2011
Oospecies
  • †H. mushanensis Wang et al. 2011 (type)

Hemifaveoloolithus is an oogenus of fossil dinosaur egg from the Tiantai basin in Zhejiang Province, China. It is a faveoloolithid, having spherical eggs roughly 13 cm in diameter. The shell is distinctive for being composed of four or five superimposed layers of shell units, and the honeycomb-like arrangement of pore canals.

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