Ellipsoolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg.[1] It contains only a single oospecies, E. khedaensis. The species was found in the Upper Sandy Carbonate Member of the Lameta Formation of India. These eggs were probably laid by a theropod dinosaur.[2]
| Ellipsoolithus Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Egg fossil classification 
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| Basic shell type: | Ornithoid |
| Morphotype: | Ornithoid-ratite |
| Oofamily: | †Elongatoolithidae |
| Oogenus: | †Ellipsoolithus Mohabey 1998 |
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edit- D. M. Mohabey. 1998. Systematics of Indian Upper Cretaceous dinosaur and chelonian eggshells. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):348-362
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