Water vapor conductance of the lower cretaceous dinosaurian eggs from sanagasta, la rioja, argentina: Paleobiological and paleoecological implications for South American faveoloolithid and megaloolithid eggs

Palaios

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-47

  Grellet Tinner, Gerald ^a,b,c   Fiorelli, Lucas Ernesto ^b   Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe ^d  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica ^*  (Argentina)

^c The Journey Museum   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGGSHELL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; MOISTURE CONTENT; NESTING; ONTOGENY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WATER VAPOR;

ARGENTINA; LA RIOJA [ARGENTINA]; SANAGASTA VALLEY;

DINOSAURIA; MEGALOOLITHIDAE; MEGALOOLITHUS;

EID: 84855973010     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2011.p11-061r     Document Type: Article

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