Himeoolithus
Field photograph to come
Himeoolithus
DV-1101 · type species Himeoolithus murakamii
- Lived
- 113 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Japan
- Named by
- Tanaka et al. 2020
Field notes
About Himeoolithus
Himeoolithus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 110 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Himeoolithus, from Japan. Its fossils come from the Ohyamashimo Formation. It was named by Tanaka et al. in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Theropoda.
Sources: Paleobiology DatabaseNamed in: K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and F. Therrien, T. Ikeda, K. Kubota, H. Saegusa, T. Tanaka, K. Ikuno. 2020. Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cretaceous Research 114:104519:1-14