Sankofa (Oogenus)
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| Sankofa Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Eggshell classification  | |
| Basic shell type: | †Dinosauroid-prismatic |
| Oofamily: | †Prismatoolithidae |
| Oogenus: | †Sankofa |
Sankofa is an Oogenus of Prismatoolithid egg. It contains only a single oospecies, S. pyrenaica. The eggs are fairly small, smooth-shelled, and asymmetrical. Sankofa may represent the eggs of a transitional species between nonavian theropods and birds.[1]
References
- ↑ N. López-Martínez and E. Vicens. 2012. A new peculiar dinosaur egg, Sankofa pyrenaica oogen. nov. oosp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous coastal deposits of the Aren Formation, South-Central Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spin. Palaeontology 55(2):325-339
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