Tiny, ornamented eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah represent a new ootaxon with theropod affinities

A new Cretaceous ootaxon (eggshell type) from the Kaiparowits Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is among a growing number of very small eggs described from the Mesozoic. Analyses of two partial eggs (~ 17.7 mm in diameter) and 29 eggshell fragments reveal that this new ootaxon...

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Autores principales: Oser, Sara E., Chin, Karen, Sertich, Joseph J. W., Varricchio, David J., Choi, Seung, Rifkin, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33976315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89472-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33976315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89472-1

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