Microstructure-dictated resistance properties of some Indian dinosaur eggshells: Finite element modeling

Paleobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-323

  Srivastava, Rahul ^a   Sahni, Ashok ^b   Jafar, Syed A ^c   Mishra, Sanjay ^d  

^a NAGALAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Institute of Engineering and Technology ^*  (India)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKING; DINOSAUR; EGGSHELL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOSSIL; MICROSTRUCTURE; TENSILE STRESS;

DINOSAURIA; MEGALOOLITHUS;

EID: 21344465421     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0315:MRPOSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Ar, A., C. V. Paganelli, R. B. Reeves, D. G. Greene, and H. Rahn. 1974. The avian egg: water vapor conductance, shell thickness and functional pore area. Condor 76:153-158.
2. Ar, A., H. Rahn, and C. V. Paganelli. 1979. The avian egg: mass and strength. Condor 81:331-337.
3. Bathe, K. J. 1982. Finite element procedures in engineering analysis. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
4. Board, R. G., and V. D. Scott. 1980. Porosity of the avian eggshell. American Zoologist 20:339-349.
5. Carpenter, K., K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner. 1994. Dinosaur eggs and babies. Cambridge University Press, New York.
6. CCA-Europe (Calcium Carbonate Association-Europe), Belgium. 2004. http:/ www.ima.eu.org/en/ccawhat.html.
7. Chiappe, L. M., R. A. Coria, L. Dingus, F. Jackson, A. Chinsamy, and M. Fox. 1998. Sauropod embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 396:258-261.
8. Chiappe, L. M., L. Dingus, F. Jackson, G. Grellet-Tinner, R. Aspinall, J. Clarke, R. Coria, A. Garrido, and D. Loope. 2000. Sauropod eggs and embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. First international symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies Isona, Spain, Extended abstracts, pp. 23-29.
9. Chiappe, L. M., L. Salgado, and R. A. Coria. 2001. Embryonic skulls of titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs. Science 293:2444-2446.
10. Entwistle, K. M., and T. Y. Reddy. 1996. The fracture strength under internal pressure of the eggshell of the domestic fowl. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263:433-438.
11. Entwistle, K. M., H. Silyn-Roberts, and S. O. Aboudha. 1995. The relative fracture strengths of the inner and outer surfaces of the eggshell of the domestic fowl. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 262:169-174.
12. Erben, H. K. 1970. Ultrastructures and mineralization of recent and fossil avian and reptilian eggshells. Biomineralization 1: 1-66.
13. Gardner, T. N., and S. Mishra. 2003. The biomechanical environment of a bone fracture and its influence upon the morphology of healing. Medical Engineering and Physics 25:455-464.
14. Griffith, A. A. 1921. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 221:1-163.
15. Hirsch, K. F. 1994a. The fossil record of vertebrate eggs. Pp. 269-294 in S. Donovan, ed. The palaeobiology of trace fossils. Wiley, London.
16. Hirsch, K. F. 1994b. Upper Jurassic eggshells from the Western Interior of North America. Pp. 137-150 in Carpenter et al. 1994.
17. Hirsch, K. F. 1996. Parataxonomic classification of fossil chelonian and gecko eggs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:752-762.
18. Hirsch, K. F., and B. Quinn. 1990. Eggs and eggshell fragments from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10:491-511.
19. Huiskes, R., and E. Y. S. Chao. 1983. A survey of finite element analysis in orthopedic biomechanics: the first decade. Journal of Biomechanics 16:385.
20. Khosla, A., and A. Sahni. 1995. Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 40:87-102.
21. Kingery, W. D., H. K. Bowen, and D. R. Uhlmann. 1976. Introduction to ceramics. Wiley, New York.
22. Mikhailov, K. E. 1986. Pore complexes of noncarinate avian eggshells and the mechanism of pore formation. Palaeontological Journal 3:77-86.
23. Mikhailov, K. E. 1991. Classification of fossil eggshells of amniotic vertebrates. Acta Palaeontographica Polonica 36:193-238.
24. Mikhailov, K. E., K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov. 1994. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Pp. 88-115 in Carpenter et al. 1994.
25. Mohabey, D. M. 1999. Indian Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) dinosaur eggs: their parataxonomy and implications in understanding the nesting behavior. First international symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, Isona, Spain, Extended abstracts, pp. 45-46.
26. Mohabey, D. M. 2001. Indian dinosaur eggs: a review. Journal of the Geological Society of India 58:479-508.
27. Norell, M. A., J. M. Clarke, L. M. Chiappe, and D. Dashzeveg. 1995. A nesting dinosaur. Nature 378:774-776.
28. Rahn, H., C. V. Paganelli, and A. J. Ar. 1987. Pore and gas exchange of avian eggs. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Suppl. 1):165-172.
29. Rensberger, J. M. 1995. Determination of stresses in mammalian dental enamel and their relevance to the interpretation of feeding behaviors in extinct taxa. Pp. 151-172 in J. J. Thomason, ed. Functional morphology in vertebrate paleontology. Cambridge University Press, New York.
30. Sahni, A., S. K. Tandon, A. Jolly, S. Bajpai, A. Seed, and S. Srinivasan. 1994. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs and nesting sites from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary province of peninsular India. Pp. 204-226 in Carpenter et al. 1994.
31. Schleich, H. H., and W. Kaestle. 1988. Reptile egg-shells: SEM atlas. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart.
32. Seymour, R. S. 1979. Dinosaur eggs: gas conductance through the shell, water loss during incubation, and clutch size. Paleobiology 5:1-11.
33. Sibley, C. G., and K. Simkiss. 1987. Gas diffusion through nontabular pores. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Suppl. 1): 187-191.
34. Srivastava, R. 1998. Biomechanical analyses of rodent incisors: a morphological and microstructural adaptation. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologic 38:209-225.
35. Tetelman, A. S., and A. J. McEvily. 1967. Fracture of structural materials. Wiley, New York.
36. Toien, O., C. V. Paganelli, H. Rahn, and R. R. Johnson. 1987. Influence of eggshell pore shape on gas diffusion. Experimental Zoology (Suppl. 1):181-186.
37. Viney-Liaud, M., P. Mallan, O. Buscail, and C. Montgelard. 1994. Review of French eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral and organic compositions. Pp. 151-183 in Carpenter et al. 1994.
38. Zhao, Z. K. 1975. The microstructure of the dinosaurian eggshells of Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province. 1. On the classification of dinosaur eggs. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 13:105-117.
39. Zhao, Z. K. 1979a. The advancement of research on the dinosaurian eggs in China. Pp. 330-340 in Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, eds. Mesozoic and Cenozoic red beds of South China. Science Press, Beijing. [In Chinese.]
40. Zhao, Z. K. 1979b. Discovery of dinosaurian eggs and footprint from Neixang county, Henan Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 14: 42-44.
41. Zhao, Z. K. 1994. Dinosaur eggs in China: on the structure and evolution of eggshells. Pp. 184-203 in Carpenter et al. 1994.
42. Zhao, Z. K., and Z. C. Li. 1988. A new structural type of the dinosaur eggs from Anly County, Hubei Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 26:107-115.