Full reference: T. Imai, Y. Azuma, and H. Yukawa. 2021. New Early Cretaceous dinosaurian eggshell Multifissoolithus shimonosekiensis (Dinosauria, Dongyangoolithidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, southwestern Japan. Historical Biology 33(9):1760-1766
Belongs to Multifissoolithus according to T. Imai et al. 2021
See also Zhang 2022
Sister taxa: Multifissoolithus chianensis, Multifissoolithus megadermus
Type specimen: SAM-Z-2019001 and FPDM-V-9770, an egg. Its type locality is Ayaragi River, Shimonoseki, which is in an Aptian/Albian fluvial sandstone in the Sujigahama Formation of Japan.
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Ayaragi River, Shimonoseki
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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