''Apheloolithus'' is an oogenus of

fossil egg Egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals. As evidence of the physiological processes of an animal, egg fossils are considered a type of trace fossil. Under rare circumstances a fossil egg may preserve the remains of t ...

s from the Late Cretaceous Yuanpu and Pingling Formations of the

Nanxiong Basin Nanxiong (), historically Namyung, Namhung, and Nanhsiung, is a county-level city of northern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangxi to the north, east and southeast. It is under the administration of Guangdong Gua ...

. Amateur paleontologist Donald Glut, in the appendix of his dinosaur encyclopedia, was unable to find the initial description of it, and speculated that it may not be a valid oogenus.

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Egg fossils Maastrichtian life Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia Cretaceous China Fossils of China {{eggshell-stub