Ovaloolithus tristriatus Zhao 1979 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Ovaloolithidae

Full reference: Z. Zhao. 1979. [Advances in the study of fossil dinosaur eggs in our country]. Mesozoic and Cenozoic red beds of South China; selected papers from the field conference on the South China Cretaceous-Early Tertiary red beds. Science Press, Beijing 330-340

Belongs to Ovaloolithus according to K. E. Mikhailov 2000

See also Wang et al. 2012, Zhang and Wang 2010, Zhang et al. 2017, Zhao 1979 and Zhao et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis, Ovaloolithus dinornithoides, Ovaloolithus huangtulingensis, Ovaloolithus laminadermus, Ovaloolithus mixistriatus, Ovaloolithus monostriatus, Ovaloolithus sangpingensis, Ovaloolithus tenuisus, Ovaloolithus turpanensis, Ovaloolithus utahensis, Ovaloolithus weiqiaoensis

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ovaloolithus tristriatus in the database

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