First Evidence of Reproductive Adaptation to “Island Effect” of a Dwarf Cretaceous Romanian Titanosaur, with Embryonic Integument In Ovo

BACKGROUND: The Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages of Romania are famous for geographically endemic dwarfed dinosaur taxa. We report the first complete egg clutches of a dwarf lithostrotian titanosaur, from Toteşti, Romania, and its reproductive adaptation to the “island effect”. METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS...

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Autores principales: Grellet-Tinner, Gerald, Codrea, Vlad, Folie, Annelise, Higa, Alessandra, Smith, Thierry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032051

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032051

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