Tacuarembovum

Tacuarembovum; Temporal range: Campanian-Maastrichtian; ~75–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type:	Ornithoid
Morphotype:	Ornithoid-ratite
Oofamily:	†Elongatoolithidae
Oogenus:	†Tacuarembovum; Mones, 1980
Oospecies
	†Tacuarembovum oblongum Mones, 1980 (type);

Tacuarembovum is an oogenus of fossil egg from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Asencio Formation of Uruguay.^[1] It represents an Elongatoolithid, and pending future analysis may be found to be synonymous with another oospecies.^[2]

References

^ Mones, A. (1980) "Nuevos elementos de la paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodilia y Dinosauria)." Actas II Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1:265-277 (in Spanish)
^ Batista, A. (2012). "Análisis morfológico y sistemático de Tacuarembovum oblongum Mones 1980 y otras ooformas similares (Dinosauria), cretácico tardío? de Uruguay: implicancias." Graduate Thesis for Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

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