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Tacuarembovum

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Tacuarembovum
Temporal range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
~75–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Egg fossil classification Edit this classification
Basic shell type: Ornithoid
Morphotype: Ornithoid-ratite
Oofamily: †Elongatoolithidae
Oogenus: †Tacuarembovum
Mones, 1980
Oospecies
  • †Tacuarembovum oblongum Mones, 1980 (type)

Tacuarembovum is an oogenus of fossil egg from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Asencio Formation of Uruguay. It represents an Elongatoolithid, and pending future analysis may be found to be synonymous with another oospecies.

References

  1. Mones, A. (1980) "Nuevos elementos de la paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodilia y Dinosauria)." Actas II Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1:265-277 (in Spanish)
  2. Batista, A. (2012). "Análisis morfológico y sistemático de Tacuarembovum oblongum Mones 1980 y otras ooformas similares (Dinosauria), cretácico tardío? de Uruguay: implicancias." Graduate Thesis for Universidad de la República (Uruguay)


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