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Faveoolithidae is an oofamily of dinosaur egg.

History
The earliest discoveries of faveoloolithid eggs were from the Gobi desert in Mongolia, reported by the Soviet paleontologist A. Sochava in 1969 and 1971. He was working prior to the modern parataxonomic system for classifying fossil eggs, and group these finds as "multicanaliculate". In 1971, faveoloolithid eggs began to be discovered in Ningxia, China, as well. In 1976, the Chinese paleontologists Zhao Zikui and Ding Shangren named the oofamily and oospecies Faveoloolithus ningxiaensis for these eggs, using Zhao's classification scheme for fossil eggs into parataxonomic groupings similar to Linnaean taxonomy. Zhao and Ding recognized that the Mongolian multicanaliculate eggs should also be classified in this oofamily.