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Bauruoolithus

Bauruoolithus is an oogenus of fossilized eggs belonging to an extinct crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian) of Brazil. Bauruoolithus eggs were most likely laid by the notosuchian crocodyliform Baurusuchus. Eggs of Bauruoolithus were described in 2011 from the Adamantina Formation. The type oospecies is B. fragilis.

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Bauruoolithus is an oogenus of fossilized eggs belonging to an extinct crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian) of Brazil. Bauruoolithus eggs were most likely laid by the notosuchian crocodyliform Baurusuchus. Eggs of Bauruoolithus were described in 2011 from the Adamantina Formation. The type oospecies is B. fragilis.

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