Sphaerovum erbeni Mones, 1980

Remarks

• Collection:      Lee Garrison

• Formation:     Mercedes Formation

• Location:        Santa Lucia Basin, Soriano Province, Uruguay

• Data compiled by Lee Garrison

• Sphaerovum erbeni Mones was named before Megaloolithus, though it correctly belongs in the Megaloolithidae Oofamily (Carpenter, 1999).  It is most similar to Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud, Mallan, Buscail & Montgelard 1994.

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• Sauropod egg

• 1980 Sphaerovum erbeni Mones
• 1999 Sphaerovum erbeni Mones; Carpenter

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Mercedes Formation of Uruguay

Age

• Sphaerovum erbeni Mones is a Middle to Late Campanian age sauropod egg (~75–71 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Uruguay

Remarks

        For more information see:

• Carpenter, K.  1999.  Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs, A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction.  Bloomington & Indianapolis:  Indiana University Press.  Appendix 1.  Parataxonomic List, 280.

• Mones, A.  1980.  Nuevos Elementos de la Paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodylia y Dinosauria).  Actas del Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Biostratigrafia 1, 265–277.