Digital preparation of a probable neoceratopsian preserved within an egg, with comments on microstructural anatomy of ornithischian eggshells

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 493-500

  Balanoff, Amy M ^a   Norell, Mark A ^a   Grellet Tinner, Gerald ^b   Lewin, Matthew R ^c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b South Dakota School of Mines Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Eggshell microstructure; Embryo; Ornithischia

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGGSHELL; EMBRYO; FOSSIL; ONTOGENY; PRESERVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO; LIVING FOSSIL; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; X RAY ANALYSIS; YAMACERATOPS DORNGOBIENSIS;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EGG SHELL; EGGS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY;

DINOSAURIA; NEOCERATOPSIA; ORNITHISCHIA;

EID: 44149115691     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0347-2     Document Type: Article

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