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Parafaveoloolithus microporus

Reptilia - Faveoloolithidae

Taxonomy
Parafaveoloolithus microporus was named by Zhang (2010). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is IVPP V16857.1, an egg, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fangshan, Tiantai, which is in an Albian terrestrial horizon in the Laijia Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2010Parafaveoloolithus microporus Zhang pp. 215-216 figs. 3-4
2012Parafaveoloolithus microporus Wang et al. p. 404
2013Parafaveoloolithus microporus Zou et al. p. 105
2018Parafaveoloolithus microporus Zheng et al. p. 900

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
familyFaveoloolithidae
genusParafaveoloolithus
speciesmicroporus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S.-K. Zhang 2010Egg spherical . Eggshell usually composed of one layer of slender prismatic shell units, or twoand closely spaced.