Phaceloolithus hunanensis Zeng and Zhang 1979 (dinosaur)

Reptilia - Phaceloolithidae

Full reference: D.-m. Zeng and J.-j. Zhang. 1979. On the dinosaurian eggs from the western Dongting Basin, Hunan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17(2):131-136

Belongs to Phaceloolithus according to D.-m. Zeng and J.-j. Zhang 1979

See also Mikhailov 1997

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NO 76101, an egg. Its type locality is Dongting Basin west, egg site, which is in a Cretaceous terrestrial siliciclastic in the Fenshui'ao Formation of China.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dongting Basin west, egg site

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