Prismatoolithus

{{Short description|Dinosaur egg}}

{{oobox

| fossil_range = Hauterivian-Maastrichtian
~{{fossil range|130|66|latest=Paleocene}}

| image = Prismatoolithus IVPP.jpg

| image_caption = Prismatoolithus tiantaiensis eggs, Paleozoological Museum of China

| taxon = Prismatoolithus

| authority =

| subdivision_ranks = Oospecies

| subdivision = * P. caboti

  • P. gebiensis
  • P. hanshuiensis
  • P. heyuanensis
  • P. hirschi
  • P. hukouensis
  • P. ilekensis
  • P. jenseni
  • P. levis
  • P. matellensis
  • P. tenuis
  • P. tiantaiensis
  • P. trempii

}}

Prismatoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from the Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Maastrichtian) and possibly also the earliest Paleocene. They likely belonged to troodontids.Carpenter, K. 1999. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.Mateus, I, H Mateus, MT Antunes, O Mateus, P Taquet, V Ribeiro, G Manuppella. 1998. Upper Jurassic theropod dinosaur embryos from Lourinhã (Portugal). Memórias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa 37, 101-110

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