Egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals. As evidence of the physiological processes of an animal, egg fossils are considered...
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presumed that dinosaurs had laid eggs because they were reptiles. In 1859, the first scientifically documented dinosaur egg fossils were discovered in France...
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portrayals of egg fossils. Humans have encountered egg fossils for thousands of years. In Stone Age Mongolia, local peoples fashioned fossil dinosaur eggshell...
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Reptile egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by reptiles. The fossil record of reptile eggs goes back at least as far as the Early Permian...
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and sharks. Occasionally eggs are preserved still within the mother's body, or associated with fossil embryos. Some fossil eggs possibly laid by fish cannot...
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egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by cephalopods. The fossil record of cephalopod eggs is scant since their soft, gelatinous eggs decompose...
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Monotreme (redirect from Fossil Monotremes)
the order Monotremata. They are the only group of living mammals that lay eggs, rather than bearing live young. The extant monotreme species are the platypus...
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conditions afflicting eggs have been documented in the fossil record. Examples include eggshell of abnormal thickness and fossil eggs with multiple layers...
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Antarcticoolithus (category Egg fossils)
Antarcticoolithus is an oogenus of large fossil eggs from the Maastrichtian part of the Lopez de Bertodano Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctica. The...
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wikidata descriptions as a fallback Burrow fossil – Trace fossil Egg fossil – Fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals Ichnite – Fossilized...
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the bird from Noah's ark in Angel's Egg), and involve the fossil of an angel Oshii himself said that Angel's Egg was another attempt at the idea and anime...
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of fossil eggs begins with the original egg itself. Not all eggs that end up fossilizing experience the death of their embryo beforehand. Even eggs that...
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of fossils in amber, fossil dinosaur eggs, and a large collection of opalised fossils. The Somerville Collection is approximately one third fossil and...
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Palaeoxyris (category Egg fossil stubs)
Palaeoxyris is a morphogenus of eggs cases, widely thought to have been produced by hybodonts, with a predominant occurrence in ancient freshwater environments...
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Tipoolithus (category Egg fossil stubs)
Tipoolithus is an oogenus of fossil egg native to the Irbzer Formation in Morocco. Its classification is uncertain, but it most closely resembles Laevisoolithids...
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behaviors. List of egg topics Animal shell Butterfly eggs Egg white Fossil egg Haugh unit Oology Oviparous Trophic egg Organic egg production "Whale Shark...
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Mazonova (category Egg fossil stubs)
Paleozoic eggs are rare in the fossil record.[citation needed] Some coelacanth eggs (belonging to Rhabdoderma exiquum) are known, as well as the eggs of sharks...
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A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis, lit. 'obtained by digging') is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past...
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Suchoolithus (category Egg fossils)
Suchoolithus is an oogenus (fossil egg genus) of crocodylomorph eggs from the late Jurassic of Portugal. They are notable for their small size, and for...
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Stalicoolithus (category Egg fossil stubs)
dinosaur egg from the Sanshui and Chichengshan Formations of the Tiantai Basin in Zhejiang Province. It is known from a single, complete fossil egg, notable...
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oldest fossil of its type ever discovered. This find would support a gondwanan paleodistribution. Additional notable discoveries include a dinosaur egg fossil...
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Tacuarembovum (category Egg fossil stubs)
Tacuarembovum is an oogenus of fossil egg from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Asencio Formation of Uruguay. It represents an Elongatoolithid...
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Parvoolithus (category Egg fossil stubs)
an oogenus of Mongolian fossil eggs from the Campanian Barun Goyot Formation. They are known from a single small, smooth egg, which cannot be assigned...
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Styloolithus (category Egg fossils)
of highly distinctive fossil egg from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation and the Barun Goyot Formation in Mongolia. The eggs of Styloolithus were...
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Gannanoolithus (category Egg fossils)
eight eggs. Specimens CUGW EH067-1 (a single egg) and EH067-2 (a pair of eggs) were also referred to the oogenus. All of the known fossil eggs have been...
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Youngoolithus (category Egg fossil stubs)
oospecies: Youngoolithus xiaguanensis. It consists of a single fossil nest of 16 eggs with an associated dinosaur footprint that was first discovered...
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and Fossil Park in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, is a park that houses fossilized remains and petrified eggs of dinosaurs. It is a man-made fossil park...
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Gekkoolithus (category Egg fossil stubs)
fossil gecko egg. Gecko eggs have not been well-studied, and their fossils are very rare, making classification of them difficult. Gekkolithus eggs are...
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Pseudomegaloolithus (category Egg fossil stubs)
oogenus of fossil Megaloolithid egg from Morocco. It is known from eggshell fragments which are distinguished from other Megaloolithid eggs because of...
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