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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...
Autores principales: | Grellet-Tinner, Gerald, Codrea, Vlad, Folie, Annelise, Higa, Alessandra, Smith, Thierry |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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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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