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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...
Autores principales: | Fernández, Mariela S., García, Rodolfo A., Fiorelli, Lucas, Scolaro, Alejandro, Salvador, Rodrigo B., Cotaro, Carlos N., Kaiser, Gary W., Dyke, Gareth J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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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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