First discovery of dinosaur eggs in Nanhu Gebi of Hami, Xinjiang, China
Received date: 2022-05-07
Online published: 2022-08-01
Here we report the first dinosaur eggshells found in the Nanhu Gebi of Hami, including Elongatoolithus elongatus and Ovaloolithus oosp. The discovery of these dinosaur eggs not only enlarge the palaeogeographic distribution of elongtaoolithid and ovaloolithid eggs, but also indicate the geological age of egg-bearing strata to be the end of Late Cretaceous. Whether the strata can be correlated with the Subashi Formation in Turpan Basin remains to be clarified.
Key words： Nanhu Gebi, Hami, Xinjiang; Late Cretaceous; dinosaur eggs
WANG Qiang, XING Hao, SHI Hai-Tao, FANG Kai-Yong, ZHU Xu-Feng, ZHOU Ming-Xiao, WANG Xiao-Lin . First discovery of dinosaur eggs in Nanhu Gebi of Hami, Xinjiang, China[J]. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 2022 , 60(4) : 324 -327 . DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.220801
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