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Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis

Reptilia - Ovaloolithidae

Taxonomy
Oolithes chinkangkouensis was named by Chao and Chiang (1974). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is IVPP ?V732, an egg, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hunglanfu, Laiyang, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Jingangkou Formation of China. It is the type species of Ovaloolithus.

It was misspelled as Oolithes chingkangkouensis by Krassilov et al. (1992); it was recombined as Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis by Zhao (1979), Zhao et al. (1991), Mikhailov (2000), Zhou and Feng (2002), Liang et al. (2009), Zhang and Wang (2010), Wang et al. (2012), Zhao et al. (2013), Wang et al. (2016) and Zhang et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Oolithes chinkangkouensis Young
1974Oolithes chinkangkouensis Chao and Chiang p. 77
1979Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Zhao p. 332
1991Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Zhao et al. p. 5
1992Oolithes chingkangkouensis Krassilov et al. p. 117
2000Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Mikhailov p. 564
2002Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Zhou and Feng p. 70
2009Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Liang et al. p. 1590
2010Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Zhang and Wang p. 72
2012Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Wang et al. p. 406
2013Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Zhao et al. p. 4665
2016Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Wang et al. p. 2
2017Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Zhang et al. p. 191

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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
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
Dryomorpha
Styracosterna
Hadrosauriformes
Hadrosauroidea()
familyOvaloolithidae
genusOvaloolithus
specieschinkangkouensis()

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.

Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Chao and Chiang 1974
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Diagnosis
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