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Macroolithus

  • ... that pigments found in fossil eggshells of Macroolithus indicate a blue or green coloration, possibly with speckles? Source: "Thus, while the precise colour of the dinosaur eggs cannot be reliably reconstructed, it likely would have been olive green in immaculate eggs or speckled brown on a bluish background if the eggs were maculated. However, we can assume that the overall colour impression of the Heyuannia eggshell ranged from blue to green" [1]
    • ALT1:... that some specimens the fossil egg Macroolithus have been found with embryos of oviraptorid dinosaurs inside? Source: Cheng et al. (2008)
    • ALT2:... that the fossil dinosaur egg Macroolithus may have survived into the early Paleogene? Source: Zhao et al. 2002 [2] and Zhao et al. 2009 [3]

5x expanded by Ashorocetus (talk). Self-nominated at 20:06, 9 January 2017 (UTC).