Historical and new perspectives on the parataxonomyof fossil eggs.

Monique Vianey-Liaud and Darla Zelenitsky

A critical review on the literature about the parataxonomy of amniote eggshells reasserts the great interest of this systematics tool for the progress of dinosaur eggshell paleontology. However, shedding light on its limits, we propose to give up the use of the basic types - morphotypes key system.