Faveoloolithidae

Faveoloolithidae is an oofamily of dinosaur eggs. It contains Faveoloolithus, Hemifaveoloolithus, Parafaveoloolithus, and probably Sphaerovum. However, unlike the other Faveoloolthids, Sphaerovum has compactituberculate ornamentation more similar to megaloolithids. Like Dictyoolithidae, the membrane and the calcareous part of the eggshell formed simultaneously instead of forming the membrane before the calcareous like modern birds.

Faveoloolithidae

Gary Todd · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SauropodaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 70 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 60 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 70 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 15 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences139.1 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

70 occurrences of Faveoloolithidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

70 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

23 formations

Allen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WAllen — 40.45°S, 66.62°WAllen — 39.46°S, 67.34°WAllen — 39.45°S, 67.32°WAllen — 39.95°S, 66.57°WAllen — 39.94°S, 66.59°WAllen — 40.02°S, 66.71°WAllen — 40.04°S, 66.81°WAllen — 40.10°S, 66.87°WAllen — 39.29°S, 67.49°WAsencio — 33.52°S, 57.82°WAsencio — 34.20°S, 58.30°WAsencio — 34.02°S, 57.65°WAsencio — 33.72°S, 57.99°WAsencio — 31.93°S, 57.91°WBaruungoyot — 43.66°N, 107.84°EBaruungoyot — 43.32°N, 99.83°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EBaruungoyot — 43.94°N, 101.33°EChichengshan — 29.16°N, 121.05°EChichengshan — 29.17°N, 121.04°EChichengshan — 29.14°N, 121.03°ESeonso Conglomerate — 34.69°N, 127.18°ELaijia — 28.90°N, 120.42°ELaijia — 29.10°N, 120.76°ELaijia — 29.14°N, 121.03°EPuerto Yeruá — 32.05°S, 58.48°WPuerto Yeruá — 32.22°S, 58.13°WAnacleto — 38.20°S, 64.49°WAnacleto — 38.24°S, 64.40°WMercedes — 32.49°S, 57.43°WMercedes — 33.31°S, 58.12°WGuichón — 31.97°S, 57.73°WUlaanoosh — 44.53°N, 104.70°ELos Llanos — 29.28°S, 67.03°W? — 40.45°S, 66.62°WGaogou — 33.19°N, 111.79°EHaman — 34.91°N, 128.08°EGeumnaeri — 35.18°N, 127.53°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLijiacun — 33.76°N, 110.05°EZhoutian — 27.68°N, 113.95°EKhuren Dukh — 45.85°N, 108.40°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EZoumagang — 33.28°N, 111.68°ELago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.48°W

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The named rock units Faveoloolithidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Faveoloolithidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Faveoloolithidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Faveoloolithidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

32 references

Each of the 70 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 20 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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Picture of Faveoloolithidae

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No 3D scan of Faveoloolithidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhao and Ding 1976