A Large Accumulation of Avian Eggs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina) Reveals a Novel Nesting Strategy in Mesozoic Birds

We report the first evidence for a nesting colony of Mesozoic birds on Gondwana: a fossil accumulation in Late Cretaceous rocks mapped and collected from within the campus of the National University of Comahue, Neuquén City, Patagonia (Argentina). Here, Cretaceous ornithothoracine birds, almost cert...

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Autores principales: Fernández, Mariela S., García, Rodolfo A., Fiorelli, Lucas, Scolaro, Alejandro, Salvador, Rodrigo B., Cotaro, Carlos N., Kaiser, Gary W., Dyke, Gareth J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23613776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061030

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23613776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061030

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