Oogenus: Sankofa LOPEZ-MARTINEZ & VICENS, 2012
Etymology: Sankofa is an Ashante symbolic word (West African Akan languate)
meaning 'learning from teh past', represented by a bird with an egg in its
bill. The name referes also to the palaeobiogeographic relations between
the Pyrenean region and Africa during the Late Cretaceous.
Species: pyrenaica LOPEZ-MARTINEZ & VICENS, 2012
Etymology: After the Pyrenean region where the type locality occurs.
Holotype: UMI thin section fragment, housed at the Department of Paleontologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Locality: Montsec area, South Pyrenean Central Uint, Lleida, Catalonia Province, Spain.
Horizon: Aren Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Egg shell fragment.
Referred material:
Numbers: Not given: Clutches with partial eggs, and eggshell fragments.