First data on dinosaur eggs and clutches from Pinyes locality (Upper Cretaceous, Southern Pyrenees)

Ameghiniana

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-87

  Vila, Bernat ^a   Jackson, Frankie ^b   Galobarp, Àngel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Clutches; Eggs; Excavated pits; Megaloolithidae; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGG; EGGSHELL; NEW RECORD; OXYGEN; PALEOSOL; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

PYRENEES;

DINOSAURIA; MEGALOOLITHIDAE; MEGALOOLITHUS; MEGALOOLITHUS SIRUGUEI;

EID: 77953777047     PISSN: 00027014     EISSN: 18518044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.v47i1.3     Document Type: Article

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