Uppermost Cretaceous megaloolithid eggs from the Haţeg Basin, Romania, associated with hadrosaur hatchlings: Search for explanation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 360-374

  Grigorescu, Dan ^a   Garcia, Géraldine ^b   Csiki, Zoltán ^a   Codrea, Vlad ^c   Bojar, Ana Voica ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ha eg Basin; Maastrichtian; Megaloolithidae; Telmatosaurus

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLADISTICS; CLUTCH SIZE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FLOODPLAIN; HATCHING; MICROSTRUCTURE; ONTOGENY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; TOOTH;

HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA;

DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; MEGALOOLITHIDAE; MEGALOOLITHUS; MEGALOOLITHUS SIRUGUEI; SAUROPODA; TELMATOSAURUS; TITANOSAURIA;

EID: 77954959427     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.031     Document Type: Article

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