Name - Testudoolithus Hirsch 1996

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1224533 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Testudoolithus

• Tiantaioolithus Fang, Liwu, Yangen & Liangfeng 2003

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Original Description Reference

• Parataxonomic classification of fossil chelonian and gecko eggs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(4), 31 December 1996: 752-762. [Zoological Record Volume 133]

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Recent Publications

• Parataxonomic classification of fossil chelonian and gecko eggs.
• The first in situ turtle clutch from the Cretaceous Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, China.
• First chelonian eggs and carapace fragments from the Pliocene of Rhodes, Greece.
• A gravid fossil turtle from the Early Cretaceous reveals a different egg development strategy to that of extant marine turtles.

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