Biology:Oolithes
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| Oolithes spheroides | |
Egg fossil classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Oogenus: | †Oolithes Buckman, 1860 |
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Oolithes is an oogenus with uncertain affinities. It has historical significance because it was the earliest named oogenus. James Buckman described the first named species as Oolithes bathonicae in a communication to the 4 May 1859 meeting of the Geological Society (published in 1860). Buckman believed that Oolithes represented the eggs of a teleosaurian reptile.[1]
Since Buckman's description of O. bathonicae, two other oospecies have been named: O. nanhsiungensis and O. spheroides, both of which were native to the Maastrichtian of China .[2][3]
References
- ↑ Buckman, James (1860), "On some fossil reptilian eggs from the Great Oolite of Cirencester", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16: 107–110, doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1860.016.01-02.11, https://books.google.com/books?id=ucjiRRCUI3IC&pg=PA110
- ↑ Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Emily S. Bray & Karl E. Hirsch (1996). "Parataxonomy of fossil egg remains (Veterovata): basic principles and applications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (4): 763–769. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011364.
- ↑ Paleobiology Database
Wikidata ☰ Q16986898 entry
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