Reptilia - Ornithischia - Prismatoolithidae
Alternative combinations: Preprismatoolithus coloradoensis, Prismatoolithus coloradensis
Full reference: K. F. Hirsch. 1994. Upper Jurassic eggshells from the Western Interior of North America. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 137-150
Belongs to Preprismatoolithus according to D. K. Zelenitsky and L. V. Hills 1996
See also Carpenter 1997, Carpenter 1999, Foster et al. 2016, Hirsch 1994, Hirsch 2001, Mikhailov 1997, Moreno-Azanza et al. 2014, Sellés et al. 2014, Wang et al. 2018 and Zhao 2003
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MWC 122.3.1/HEC 457, an egg. Its type locality is Young locality, Delta (MWC–122.1), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian dry floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (7: Colorado, Utah collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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