Assessing the nesting strategies of Late Cretaceous titanosaurs: 3-D Clutch geometry from a new megaloolithid eggsite

Lethaia

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 197-208

  Vila, Bernat ^a   Galobart, Àngel ^a   Oms, Oriol ^a   Poza, BegoÑa ^b   Bravo, Ana MAría ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ^*  (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUTCH SIZE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; INCUBATION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TYPE LOCALITY;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN; VALLCEBRE;

DINOSAURIA; MEGALOOLITHIDAE; MEGALOOLITHUS SIRUGUEI;

EID: 77953765644     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00183.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Aepler R. Das Garumnium der Mulde von Vallcebre und ihre Tektonik (Spanien, Provinz Barcelona 1967, Unpublished MSc Thesis, Freie Universität, Berlin, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
2. Bravo AM, Moratalla JJ, Santafé JV, de Santisteban C. Faidella, a new Upper Cretaceous nesting site from the Tremp Basin (Lérida province, Spain). First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Extended Abstracts 2000, 15-21. Bravo AM, Reyes T, eds, Isona, Lleida
3. Bravo AM, Buscalioni AD, Merino L, Müller BG. Experimental taphonomy of avian eggs and eggshells: effects on the early diagenesis. Palaeovertebrata 2003, 32:77-95.
4. Bravo AM, Vila B, Galobart À, Oms O. Restos de huevos de dinosaurio en el sinclinal de Vallcebre (Berguedà, Provincia de Barcelona). Revista Española de Paleontología N. E. 2005, 10:49-57.
5. Bridge JH. Rivers and Floodplains 2003, Blackwell Publishing, Malden
6. Chiappe LM, Salgado L, Coria R. Embryonic skulls of titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs. Science 2001, 293:2444-2446.
7. Chiappe LM, Schmitt JG, Jackson FD, Garrido A, Gingus L, Grellet-Tinner G. Nest structure for sauropods: sedimentary criteria for recognition of dinosaur nesting traces. Palaios 2004, 19:89-95.
8. Cousin R. Organisation des pontes de dinosauriens de la parafamille des Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre 2002, 89:1-177.
9. Cousin R, Breton G. A fine and complete excavation is necessary to demonstrate a dinosaur clutch structure. First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Extended Abstracts 2000, 31-41. Bravo AM, Reyes T. eds, Isona, Lleida
10. Cousin R, Breton G, Fournier R, Watte J-P. Dinosaur egg-laying and nesting: the case of an upper Maastrichtian site at Rennes-Le-Chateau (Aude, France). Historical Biology 1989, 2:157-167.
11. Cousin R, Breton G, Fournier R, Watté J-P, Carpenter K, Hirsch KF, Horner J. Dinosaur egglaying and nesting in France. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 1994, 56-74. eds, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
12. Dalrymple RW, Zaitlin BA, Boyd R. Estuarine facies and models: conceptual bias and stratigraphic implications. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 1992, 62:1130-1146.
13. Deeming DC. Ultrastructural and functional morphology of eggshells supports the idea that dinosaur eggs were incubated buried in a substrate. Paleontology 2006, 49:171-185.
14. Erben HK, Hoefs J, Wedepohl KH. Paleobiologic and isotopic studies of eggshells from a declinig dinosaur species. Paleobiology 1979, 5:380-414.
15. Fortuny J, Vila B, Galobart À. Técnicas de documentación y representación tridimensional de puestas de dinosaurio. Cantera Paleontológica 2007, 181-192. Cambra O, Martínez-Pérez C, Chamero BEscaso Fde Esteban SMarugán J. eds
16. Freytet P. Découverte d'oeufs de Dinosaures à Saint-André-de-Roquelongue (Aude). Bulletin de la Sociéte d'Études de la Science de l'Aude 1965, 65:121-124.
17. Galobart À, Oms O, Gaete R, Buscalioni A, Bravo AM, Val S, Muller G, Pellegero I. Prelimary study of a dinosaur egg nest from the Maastrichtian of Fumanya (Catalan Pyrenees). I Congreso Internacional sobre Dinosaurios y otros Reptiles Mesozoicos en España 2002, 22. Perez-Lorente F, ed, Logroño
18. García RA. An 'egg-tooth'-like structure in titanosaurian sauropod embryos. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2007, 27:247-252.
19. García-Vallés M, González-Prado J, Vendrell M. Caracterización de los lignitos garumnienses del Pirineo catalán. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica 1993, 17:85-107.
20. Horner JR, Makela R. Nest of juveniles provides evidence of family structure among dinosaurs. Nature 1979, 282:296-298.
21. Jackson F. Titanosaur Reproductive Biology: Comparison of the Auca Mahuevo Titanosaur Nesting Locality (Argentina), to the Pinyes Megaloolithus Nesting Locality (Spain) 2007, Unpublished PhD dissertation. Montana State University, Bozeman
22. Jackson F, Varricchio J, Jackson R, Vila B, Chiappe L. Comparison of water-vapor conductance on a titanosaur egg from Argentina with a Megaloolithus siruguei from Spain. Paleobiology 2008, 34:229-246.
23. Kérourio P. Nouvelles observations sur le mode de nification et de ponte chez les dinosauriens du Crétacé Terminal du Midi de la France. Comptes Rendus Sommaire des Séances de la Société Géologique de France 1981, 1:25-28.
24. o Coloquio Europeo de Micropaleontología 1973, 87-112. Madrid
25. López-Martínez N, Ardèvol L, Vicens E, Capdevila J, López-Martínez N. Paleontology and petrography. First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 1999, 12-17. eds, Field Trip Guide, Isona, Lleida
26. López-Martínez N, Moratalla JJ, Sanz JL. Dinosaurs nesting on tidal flats. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2000, 160:153-163.
27. McCabe PJ, Gluskoter HJ, Rice DD, Taylor RB. Geology of coal: environments of deposition. Economic Geology, US, Volume 2 1991, 469-482. eds, Geological Society of America
28. Médus J, Feist M, Rocchia R, Batten DJ, Boclet D, Colombo F, Tambareau Y, Villatte J. Prospects for recognition of the palynological Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary and iridium anomaly in nomarine facies of the eastern Spanish Pyrenees: a preliminary report. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 1988, 18:123-138.
29. Miall AD. The Geology of Fluvial Deposits 1996, Springer-Verlag, New York
30. Mikhailov KE. Pore complexes of noncarinate avian egg shells and the mechanism of pore formation. Paleontological Journal 1986, 3:77-86.
31. Mikhailov KE. Fossil and recent eggshell in amniotic vertebrates: fine structure, comparative morphology and classification? Special Papers in Paleontology 1997, 56:1-80.
32. Mohabey DM. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) nests, eggs, and dung mass (Coprolites) of sauropods (titanosaurs) from India. Thunder Lizard: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs 2005, 466-489. Tidwell VCarpenter K. eds, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
33. Mueller-Töwe IJ, Sander PM, Schüller H, Thies D. Hatching and infilling of dinosaur eggs as revealed by computed tomography. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 2002, 267:119-168.
34. Oms O, Dinarès-Turell J, Vicens E, Estrada R, Vila B, Galobart À, Bravo AM. Integrated stratigraphy from the Vallcebre Basin (southeastern Pyrenees, Spain): new insights on the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in southwest Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 255:35-47.
35. Peitz C. Megaloolithid dinosaur eggs from the Maastrichtian of Catalunya (NE-Spain) - parataxonomic implications and stratigraphic utility. First International Symposium Dinosaur eggs and babies, Extended Abstracts 2000, 155-164. Bravo AMReyes T. eds, Isona, Lleida
36. Rosell J, Linares R, Llompart C. El 'Garumniense' Prepirenaico. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 2001, 14:47-56.
37. Sander PM, Peitz C, Gallemí J, Cousin R. Dinosaurs nesting on a red beach? Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de les Sciencies Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 1998, 327:67-74.
38. Sander PM, Peitz C, Jackson FD, Chiappe LM. Upper Cretaceous titanosaur nesting sites and their implications for sauropod dinosaur reproductive biology. Palaeontographica A 2008, 284:69-107.
39. Sanz JL, Moratalla JJ, Díaz-Molina M, López-Martínez N, Kälin O, Vianey-Liaud M. Dinosaur nests at the sea shore. Nature 1995, 376:731-732.
40. Seymour RS. Dinosaur egg: gas conductance through the Shell, water loss during incubation and clutch size. Paleobiology 1979, 5:1-11.
41. Ullastre J, Masriera A. Le passage Crétacé-Tertiare dans les régions sud-pyrenénnes de la Catalogne: données nouvelles. Géologie Mediterranéenne 1983, 10:277-281.
42. Varricchio DJ, Jackson F, Borkowski JJ, Horner JR. Nest and egg clutches of the dinosaur Troodon formosus and the evolution of avian reproductive traits. Nature 1997, 385:247-250.
43. Vianey-Liaud M, Mallan P, Buscail O, Montgelard G. Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral and organic composition. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 1994, 151-183. Carpenter K, Hirsch KF, Horner J, eds, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
44. Vianey-Liaud M, Khosla A, Garcia G. Relationships between European and Indian dinosaur eggs and eggshells of the oofamily Megaloolithidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2003, 23:575-585.
45. Vila B, Oms O, Galobart À. Manus-only titanosaurid trackway from Fumanya (Maastrichtian, Pyrenees): further evidence for an underprint origin. Lethaia 2005, 38:211-218.
46. Vila B, Garrido A, Galobart À, Bravo AM, Jackson F. Dinosaur eggs and clutches from Pinyes locality (southern Pyrenees) and comparison to Auca Mahuevo (Patagonia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2006, 26:135A.
47. Vila B, Jackson F, Galobart À. First data on dinosaur eggs and clutches from Pinyes locality (Upper Cretaceous, Southern Pyrenees). Ameghiniana
48. Williams DLG, Seymour RS, Kérourio P. Structure of fossil dinosaur eggshell from the Aix Basin, France. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 1984, 45:13-26.