Dendroolithus

{{Short description|Oogenus of dinosaur egg}}

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| fossil_range = Cenomanian-Maastrichtian
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| image = Dendroolithus-eggs.jpg

| image_caption = Dendroolithus

| taxon = Dendroolithus

| authority = Zhao and Li, 1988

| type_oospecies = {{extinct}}Dendroolithus wangdianensis

| type_oospecies_authority =

| subdivision_ranks = Oospecies

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus dendriticus
• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus fengguangcunensis
• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus guoqingsiensis
• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus microporosus
• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus verrucarius
• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus wangdianensis
• {{extinct}}Dendroolithus xichuanensis

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Dendroolithus is an oogenus of Dendroolithid dinosaur egg found in the late Cenomanian Chichengshan Formation (Tiantai Group), in the Gong-An-Zhai and Santonian Majiacun Formations of China and the Maastrichtian Nemegt and Campanian Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67270 Paleobiology Database]Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana. They can be up to 162 mm long and 130 mm wide.Z. Zhao and Z. Li. 1988. A new structural type of the dinosaur eggs from Anlu County, Hubei Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 26(2):107-115 These eggs may have been laid by a Therizinosaur, Sauropod, or Ornithopod.{{cite journal |author=Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Emily S. Bray & Karl E. Hirsch |year=1996 |title=Parataxonomy of fossil egg remains (Veterovata): basic principles and applications |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=763–769 |doi=10.1080/02724634.1996.10011364 |jstor=4523773}} The oospecies "D." shangtangensis was originally classified as Dendroolithus, however, it has since been moved to its own distinct oogenus, Similifaveoloolithus.Wang Qiang, Zhao Zi-kui, Wang Xiao-lin, and Jiang Yan-gen. (2011) "New ootypes of dinosaur eggs from the Late Cretaceous in Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, China." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(4):446-449. This oogenus is related with embryos of the theropod Torvosaurus{{cite journal |last1=Alves |first1=L. C. |last2=Schell |first2=N. |last3=Beckmann |first3=F. |last4=Mateus |first4=Octávio |last5=Martins |first5=Rui M. S. |last6=Castanhinha |first6=Rui |last7=Araújo |first7=Ricardo |title=Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=3 |pages=1924 |language=en |doi=10.1038/srep01924 |pmid=23722524 |pmc=3667465 |date=30 May 2013}}