A note on pterosaur nesting behavior

Historical Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 273-277

  Grellet Tinner, Gerald ^a   Wroe, Stephen ^b   Thompson, Michael ^b   Ji, Qiang ^c  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Egg; Eggshell structure; Eggshell vapor conductance; Nesting behaviour; Pterosauria

Indexed keywords

EGGSHELL; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PTEROSAUR;

ARGENTINA; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; PTEROSAURIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 34748878903     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912960701189800     Document Type: Article

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