Multifissoolithus chianensis Zhang et al. 2019 (dinosaur)

Reptilia - Dongyangoolithidae

Full reference: S.-K. Zhang, J.-F. Xie, X.-S. Jin, T.-M. Du, and M.-Y. Huang. 2019. New type of dinosaur eggs from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China and a revision of Dongyangoolithus nanmaensis. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 57(4):325-333

Belongs to Multifissoolithus according to S.-K. Zhang et al. 2019

See also Imai et al. 2021 and Zhang 2022

Sister taxa: Multifissoolithus megadermus, Multifissoolithus shimonosekiensis

Type specimen: ZMNH M 30057, an egg (an incomplete egg clutch). Its type locality is Shicheng, Chi’an Town, which is in an Albian/Cenomanian crevasse splay conglomerate in the Chaochuan Formation of China.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Shicheng, Chi’an Town

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