Coralloidoolithus

Coralloidoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from the Tiantai Basin in Zhejiang Province, containing a single known oospecies C. shizuiwanensis. Formerly, it was classified in the oogenus Paraspheroolithus; however, it was considered sufficiently different to be classified in its own genus. C. shizuiwanensis is similar to Stalicoolithus, leading to their classification in the same family, Stalicoolithidae.

No picture of Coralloidoolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coralloidoolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StalicoolithidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Coralloidoolithus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

17 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Nemegt — 43.48°N, 100.46°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.37°ENemegt — 43.58°N, 100.64°EChichengshan — 29.16°N, 121.05°EChichengshan — 29.15°N, 121.02°EChichengshan — 29.16°N, 121.01°ESeonso Conglomerate — 34.69°N, 127.18°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 101.52°EBaruungoyot — 43.66°N, 107.84°EBaruungoyot — 43.94°N, 101.33°EZhaoying — 33.24°N, 111.68°E

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The named rock units Coralloidoolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Coralloidoolithus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Coralloidoolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Coralloidoolithus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 17 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Coralloidoolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coralloidoolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Coralloidoolithus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStalicoolithidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang et al. 2012