Macroelongatoolithus

Macroelongatoolithus; Temporal range: Cretaceous,
	Macroelongatoolithus eggs in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type:	Ornithoid
Morphotype:	Ornithoid-ratite
Oofamily:	†Elongatoolithidae
Oogenus:	†Macroelongatoolithus; Li et al., 1995
Synonyms
	Oogenus synonymy Boletuoolithus Bray, 1998 ; Longiteresoolithus Wang and Zhou, 1995 ; Megafusoolithus Wang et al, 2010 ; Oospecies synonymy Oolithes carlylensis Jensen, 1970 ; Megafusoolithus qiaoxiaensis Wang et al, 2010 ; Longiteresoolithus xixiaensis Wang and Zhou, 1995 ; Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis Li et al, 1995 ; Macroelongatoolithus zhangi Fang et al, 2000 ; Macroelongatoolithus goseongensis Kim et al, 2011 ;

Macroelongatoolithus is an oogenus of large theropod dinosaur eggs, representing the eggs of giant caenagnathid oviraptorosaurs. They are known from Asia and from North America. Historically, several oospecies have been assigned to Macroelongatoolithus, however they are all now considered to be a single oospecies: M. carlylensis.

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