Comparison of water vapor conductance in a titanosaur egg from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina and a Megaloolithus siruguei egg from Spain

Paleobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 229-246

  Jackson, Frankie D ^a   Varricchio, David J ^a   Jackson, Robert A ^a   Vila, Bernat ^b   Chiappe, Luis M ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^c NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGGSHELL; NESTING; TAPHONOMY; WATER VAPOR;

ARGENTINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; MEGALOOLITHIDAE; MEGALOOLITHUS; MEGALOOLITHUS SIRUGUEI; OVIRAPTORIDAE; REPTILIA; SAUROPODA; TROODON;

EID: 45249093884     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0229:COWVCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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