Template:Oobox/doc

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This template is used to create infoboxes for egg fossil taxa (ootaxa). See Egg fossil#Classification for more information.

This template uses Lua:

Module:Autotaxobox

Documentation for the automated taxobox system

Taxonomy templates

Taxobox templates

Which should be used?
Changing the taxa displayed
Convert a taxobox to an automated taxobox
Glossary of automated taxobox parameters
Automatic taxobox – mainly for genera and higher taxa
Speciesbox – for a species
Subspeciesbox – for an animal subspecies
Infraspeciesbox – for a plant subspecies or variety
Hybridbox – for an animal hybrid within a genus
Ichnobox – for a trace fossil
Oobox – for a fossil egg
Virusbox – for viruses and non-cellular life
Paraphyletic group – for concepts that do not correspond to a monophyletic clade
Population taxobox - for notable populations of subspecies of animals

Usage

This template operates identically to Template:Automatic taxobox. Please see that template for usage instructions.

Template Data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Oobox in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Oobox

An infobox for ootaxa (fossil eggs)

Template parameters
This template prefers block formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
fossil_range	`fossil_range`	no description	String	suggested
image	`image`	no description	File	optional
image_caption	`image_caption`	no description	String	optional
parent_authority	`parent_authority`	no description	String	optional
taxon	`taxon`	no description	String	required
authority	`authority`	no description	String	required
type_oospecies	`type_oospecies`	no description	String	optional
type_oospecies_authority	`type_oospecies_authority`	no description	String	optional
subdivision_ranks	`subdivision_ranks`	no description	String	optional
subdivision	`subdivision`	no description	String	optional
synonyms	`synonyms`	no description	String	optional