Laevisoolithidae Temporal range:
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Egg fossil classification ![]() | |
Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
Oofamily: | †Laevisoolithidae Mikhailov, 1991 |
Oogenera | |
Laevisoolithidae is an oofamily of fossil eggs belonging to the Ornithoid-ratite morphotype. Their eggshells are smooth and very thin, typically less than a millimeter thick. Laevisoolithids may be the eggs of Enantiornithid birds.[2][3] Eggs of the family were found in the Grès à Reptiles Formation of France and the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.