Reptilia - Saurischia - Megaloolithidae
Full reference: A. Khosla and A. Sahni. 1995. Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 40:87-102
Belongs to Megaloolithus according to K. E. Mikhailov 1997
See also Khosla and Sahni 1995, Loyal et al. 1996 and Mohabey 2005
Sister taxa: Megaloolithus aureliensis, Megaloolithus cylindricus, Megaloolithus dhoridungriensis, Megaloolithus jabalpurensis, Megaloolithus khempurensis, Megaloolithus maghrebiensis, Megaloolithus mamillare, Megaloolithus megadermus, Megaloolithus microtuberculata, Megaloolithus petralta, Megaloolithus problematica, Megaloolithus siruguei
Type specimen: VPL/KH 590, an egg. Its type locality is Walpur, Jhabua, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Lameta Formation of India.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Walpur, Jhabua
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