Prismatoolithus
{{Short description|Dinosaur egg}}
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| 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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