Chthonic severance: dinosaur eggs of the Mesozoic, the significance of partially buried eggs and contact incubation precursors

JD Hogan, DJ Varricchio - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
For most dinosaurs, clutches consisted of a single layer of spherical to sub-spherical, highly
porous eggs that were probably fully buried. Both eggs and clutch form change drastically …

The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors

MC Mainwaring, I Medina… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in the non-avian ancestors of birds
remains poorly understood because nest structures do not preserve well as fossils …

[書籍][B] Nests, eggs, and incubation: new ideas about avian reproduction

DC Deeming, SJ Reynolds - 2015 - books.google.com
Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

Reproduction in Mesozoic birds and evolution of the modern avian reproductive mode

DJ Varricchio, FD Jackson - The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The reproductive biology of living birds differs dramatically from that of other extant
vertebrates. Although some attributes of modern avian reproduction had their origin within …

[HTML][HTML] Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs past progress and new frontiers

M Pittman, X Xu - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2020 - BioOne
This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

Correlated evolution of nest and egg characteristics in birds

J Nagy, ME Hauber, IR Hartley, MC Mainwaring - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•We examined correlated evolution between nest and egg characteristics in
birds.•The ancestral state of nests was semi-open with nest sites becoming more …

A new ornithopod dinosaur from the Santonian of Northern Patagonia (Rincón de los Sauces, Argentina)

P Cruzado-Caballero, JM Gasca, LS Filippi… - Cretaceous …, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the Argentinian ornithopod record–which includes eight species that
have been described–has increased as a result of the discovery of diverse new bone …

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis of maniraptoran eggshells with important implications for microstructural and taphonomic interpretations

S Choi, S Han, YN Lee - Palaeontology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a useful tool for gathering crystallographic
information from carbonate biominerals because it maps out the orientation of crystal grains …

The Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin in the central Andes

B Aguirre-Urreta - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Neuquén Basin, located at the foothills of the Central Andes of Argentina, with
superb and extended exposures, is a natural laboratory. It is important not only for its …

Revisiting Sabath's “larger avian eggs” from the Gobi Cretaceous

DJ Varricchio, DE Barta - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2014 - BioOne
In 1991, Sabath described “larger avian eggs” from the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot and
Djadokhta Formations of Mongolia. These were later included in the ootaxon Gobioolithus …