Megaloolithidae

Megaloolithidae is an oofamily of fossil egg of the Dinosauroid-spherulitic morphotype. They probably are the eggs of sauropods.

No picture of Megaloolithidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megaloolithidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 211 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 211 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 211 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 206 of 211 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 211 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 7 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 38 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 104 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 44 occurrences165.3 Mya72.2 Mya171 Mya64 Mya

211 occurrences of Megaloolithidae 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

211 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

29 formations

Lameta — 20.25°N, 79.10°ELameta — 23.17°N, 79.97°ELameta — 23.50°N, 81.56°ELameta — 23.06°N, 73.33°ELameta — 23.10°N, 73.38°ELameta — 22.99°N, 73.34°ELameta — 22.96°N, 74.22°ELameta — 22.95°N, 74.14°ELameta — 22.86°N, 73.34°ELameta — 22.13°N, 74.38°ELameta — 22.34°N, 74.79°ELameta — 22.89°N, 74.28°ELameta — 23.09°N, 74.15°ELameta — 22.25°N, 74.61°ELameta — 22.14°N, 74.71°ELameta — 23.17°N, 74.12°ELameta — 20.53°N, 79.27°ELameta — 20.68°N, 79.27°ELameta — 20.86°N, 79.32°ELameta — 22.28°N, 74.60°ELameta — 21.42°N, 78.00°ELameta — 22.37°N, 74.72°ELameta — 22.35°N, 74.75°EAllen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WAllen — 39.43°S, 67.29°WAllen — 39.98°S, 66.65°WAllen — 40.04°S, 66.81°WAllen — 39.75°S, 66.75°WAllen — 40.02°S, 66.71°WAllen — 39.51°S, 67.38°WLower Red Garumnian — 42.17°N, 1.24°ELower Red Garumnian — 42.17°N, 1.26°ELower Red Garumnian — 42.24°N, 1.78°ELower Red Garumnian — 42.23°N, 1.72°ELower Red Garumnian — 42.18°N, 1.85°EGrey Garumnian — 42.17°N, 1.24°EGrey Garumnian — 42.18°N, 1.79°EGrey Garumnian — 42.25°N, 0.97°EGrey Garumnian — 42.31°N, 0.66°EArgiles et Grès à Reptiles — 43.50°N, 5.53°EAnacleto — 37.88°S, 68.52°WAnacleto — 38.02°S, 68.50°WAnacleto — 38.09°S, 68.51°WAnacleto — 38.97°S, 68.05°WLa Posa — 42.11°N, 1.08°ELa Posa — 42.17°N, 0.90°ELa Posa — 42.17°N, 1.25°ELa Posa — 42.08°N, 0.80°EDensuș-Ciula — 45.60°N, 22.85°EDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.87°EArén — 42.13°N, 1.09°EArén — 42.29°N, 1.60°EArén — 42.08°N, 0.80°EConques — 42.20°N, 1.77°EConques — 42.14°N, 0.98°EConques — 42.16°N, 1.06°WConques — 42.17°N, 1.89°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.60°N, 6.11°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.34°N, 2.91°EFiguerola — 41.12°N, 1.01°EFiguerola — 42.00°N, 0.93°EMarnes Rouges Inférieures — 42.93°N, 2.26°ECalcaire de Rognac — 43.52°N, 5.66°ESerra da Galga — 19.60°S, 47.62°WSerra da Galga — 19.72°S, 47.74°WVillanueva de Huerva — 41.34°N, 1.04°WIrbzer — 33.13°N, 4.75°WGalula — 8.93°S, 33.20°EMarnes Rouges de Roquelongue — 43.11°N, 2.83°EKallankurichchi — 11.12°N, 79.11°ESantibañez del Val — 41.89°N, 3.47°WRâul Mare — 45.58°N, 22.93°EVillalba de la Sierra — 40.28°N, 2.08°WŞard — 46.03°N, 23.55°E

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The named rock units Megaloolithidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megaloolithidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 169 sites for Megaloolithidae, 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

59 references

Each of the 211 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. 47 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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No picture of Megaloolithidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megaloolithidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megaloolithidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 1979)