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Dendroolithus
Taxonomy
Dendroolithus was named by Zhao and Li (1988). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type is Dendroolithus wangdianensis. It is the type genus of Dendroolithidae.
It was assigned to Phaceloolithidae by Fang et al. (2003); and to Dendroolithidae by Zhao and Li (1988), Mikhailov (1994), Mikhailov et al. (1994), Mikhailov (2000), Liang et al. (2009), Tanaka et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Phaceloolithidae by Fang et al. (2003); and to Dendroolithidae by Zhao and Li (1988), Mikhailov (1994), Mikhailov et al. (1994), Mikhailov (2000), Liang et al. (2009), Tanaka et al. (2023).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1988 | Dendroolithus Zhao and Li p. 114 |
| 1994 | Dendroolithus Mikhailov p. 147 |
| 1994 | Dendroolithus Mikhailov et al. p. 92 |
| 2000 | Dendroolithus Mikhailov p. 565 |
| 2003 | Dendroolithus Fang et al. p. 516 |
| 2009 | Dendroolithus Liang et al. p. 1591 |
| 2023 | Dendroolithus Tanaka et al. p. 202 |
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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.
G. †Dendroolithus Zhao and Li 1988
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†Dendroolithus dendriticus Fang et al. 1998
†Dendroolithus fengguangcunensis Fang 2005
†Dendroolithus furcatus Fang 1998
†Dendroolithus microporosus Mikhailov 1994
†Dendroolithus sanlimiaoensis Fang 1998
†Dendroolithus verrucarius Mikhailov 1994
†Dendroolithus wangdianensis Zhao and Li 1988
†Dendroolithus xichuanensis Zhao and Zhao 1998
†Dendroolithus zhaoyingensis Fang 1998
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| K. E. Mikhailov 1994 | Large subspherical and ellipsoidal eggs (EL = 1.0-1.2) with rough surface (no clearly manifested ornamentation). Shell microstructure typical of family (dendrospherulitic morphotype, prolatocanaliculate type of pore system; fig. 1b, c). |