Megaloolithus siruguei Vainey-Liaud, Mallan, Buscail & Montgelard, 1994

Remarks

• Collection:      Lee Garrison

• Formation:     Maastrichtian Red Beds

• Location:        Aix-en-Provence, France

• Data compiled by Lee Garrison

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• Sauropod egg
• 1994 Megaloolithus siruguei Vainey-Liaud, Mallan, Buscail, & Montgelard
• 1999 Megaloolithus siruguei Vainey-Liaud, Mallan, Buscail, & Montgelard; Carpenter
• 2006 Megaloolithus siruguei Vainey-Liaud, Mallan, Buscail, & Montgelard; Deeming

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Maastrichtian Red Beds of France and Spain

Age

• Megaloolithus siruguei ranges from the Middle to Late Maastrichtian Stage (~66-65 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Southern France

• Northern Spain

Remarks

        For photographs and 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 (description).

• Cousin, R.; Breton, G.; Fournier, R.; Watte, J.-P.  1994.  "Dinosaur Egg Laying and Nesting in France".  In:  Carpenter, K.; Hirsch, K. F.; Horner, J. R., ed's.  Dinosaur Eggs and Babies.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 56-74.

• Deeming, D. C.  2006.  Ultrastructural and Functional Morphology of Eggshells Supports the Idea that Dinosaur Eggs Were Incubated Buried in a Substrate.  Palaeontology 49 (1), 171-185.

• Vianey-Liaud, M.; Mallan, P.; Buscail, O.; Montgelard, C.  1994. "Review of French Dinosaur Eggshells:  Morphology, Structure, Mineral, and Organic Composition".  In:  Carpenter, K.; Hirsch, K. F.; Horner, J. R., ed's.  Dinosaur Eggs and Babies.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 151-183.