Oolithes
| Oolithes Temporal range:
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| Oolithes spheroides | |
Egg fossil classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Oogenus: | †Oolithes |
Oolithes is an oogenus with uncertain affinities. It has historical significance because it was the earliest named oogenus. The first named species was Olithes bathonicae, which was described in 1860 by J. Buckman, who believed that Oolithes represented the eggs of a Teleosaurian reptile. Since then, two other oospecies have been named: O. nanhsiungensis and O. spheroides, both of which were native to the Maastrichtian of China.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ J. Buckman. 1860. On some fossil reptilian eggs from the Great Oolite of Cirencester. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:107-110
- ^ Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Emily S. Bray & Karl E. Hirsch (1996). "Parataxonomy of fossil egg remains (Veterovata): basic principles and applications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (4): 763–769. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011364. JSTOR 4523773.
- ^ Paleobiology Database
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