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Faveoloolithus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	84321	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=84321

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Faveoloolithidae : Faveoloolithus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Eusaurischia	Padian et al. 1999
-	Sauropodomorpha
-	Massopoda	Yates 2007
-	Sauropodiformes	Martinez et al. 2011
-	Sauropoda
family	Faveoloolithidae	Zhao and Ding 1976
genus	Faveoloolithus	Zhao and Ding 1976

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Faveoloolithus	genus	belongs to Faveoloolithidae	stated without evidence	Zhao and Ding, 1976
Faveoloolithus	genus	belongs to Faveoloolithidae	stated with evidence	Mikhailov, 2000
Faveoloolithus	genus	belongs to Faveoloolithidae	stated without evidence	Liang et al., 2009
Faveoloolithus	genus	belongs to Faveoloolithidae	stated with evidence	Zhang, 2010
Faveoloolithus	genus	belongs to Faveoloolithidae	stated without evidence	Zheng et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 84 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Sauropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Diet

herbivore (based on Sauropoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Sauropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense,thick (based on Sauropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

Z. Zhao and S. Ding. 1976. [Discovery of the dinosaurian egg-shells from Alxa, Ningxia and its stratigraphical significance]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 14(2):42-44

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Faveoloolithus ningxiaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Faveoloolithus zhangi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1976	Faveoloolithus Zhao and Ding p. 42
1991	Faveoloolithus Mikhailov p. 217
1994	Faveoloolithus Mikhailov et al. p. 91
2000	Faveoloolithus Mikhailov p. 565
2009	Faveoloolithus Liang et al. p. 1591
2010	Faveoloolithus Zhang p. 215
2018	Faveoloolithus Zheng et al. p. 900

References

Zhao Z., Ding S. (1976) [Discovery of the dinosaurian egg-shells from Alxa, Ningxia and its stratigraphical significance], Vertebrata PalAsiatica 14 2, 42-44

Mikhailov K. E. (1991) Classification of fossil eggshells of amniotic vertebrates, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36 2, 193-238

Mikhailov K., Sabath K., et al (1994) Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 88-115

Mikhailov K. E. (2000) Eggs and eggshells of dinosaurs and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 560-572

Liang X., Wen S., et al (2009) Dinosaur eggs and dinosaur egg-bearing deposits (Upper Cretaceous) of Henan Province, China: Occurrences, palaeoenvironments, taphonomy and preservation, Progress in Natural Science 19 11, 1587-1601 doi:10.1016/j.pnsc.2009.06.012

Zhang S.-K. (2010) [A parataxonomic revision of the Cretaceous faveoloolithid eggs of China], Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48 3, 203-219

Zheng T., Bai Y., et al (2018) A new ootype of dinosaur egg (Faveoloolithidae: Duovallumoolithus shangdanensis oogen. et oosp. nov.) from the Late Cretaceous in the Shangdan Basin, Shaanxi Province, China, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 92 3, 897-903

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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