''Stalicoolithus'' is an

oogenus 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 ...

dinosaur egg Dinosaur eggs are the organic vessels in which a dinosaur embryo develops. When the first scientifically documented remains of non-avian dinosaurs were being described in England during the 1820s, it was presumed that dinosaurs had laid eggs bec ...

from the

Sanshui Sanshui District, formerly romanized as Samshui, is an urban district of the prefecture-level city of Foshan in Guangdong province, China. It had a population of 622,645 as of the 2010 census. It is known for the "Samsui women", emigrants who lab ...

and Chichengshan Formations of the Tiantai Basin in

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. It is known from a single, complete fossil egg, notable for its spherical shape.Wang Q, Wang X L, Zhao Z K, and Jiang Y G. (2012).
A new oofamily of dinosaur egg from the Upper Cretaceous of Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, and its mechanism of eggshell formation

Chinese Science Bulletin ''Science Bulletin'' () is a multidisciplinary scientific journal co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of Science in China Press and focuses on ...

. 57: 3740-3747. doi: 10.1007/s11434-012-5353-2

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Stalicoolithids Cenomanian life Coniacian life Santonian life Turonian life Dinosaur reproduction Cretaceous China Fossils of China Fossil parataxa described in 2012 {{eggshell-stub

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