%0 Journal Article
%T IntacttheropoddinosaureggswithembryonicremainsfromtheLateCretaceousofsouthernChina
%A SHAO
%A Zhan-fu
%A FAN
%A Shao-hui
%A JIA
%A Song-hai
%A TANAKA
%A Kohei
%A L¨¹
%A Jun-chang
%J µØÖÊͨ±¨
%P 941-948
%D 2014
%X Inspiteoftremendousdiscoveriesofdinosaureggsandnestsovertheworld,dinosaurembryonicremainsarerare.Untiltoday,dinosaurembryosassociatedwitheggshellsareonlyknowninabout20cases,mostofwhichwererecoveredfrombrokenorcrushedeggs.HerewereportintactdinosaureggsinapartialclutchwithpreservedembryonicremainsineggsfromtheUpperCretaceousNanxiongFormationofGanzhouinthesouthernJiangxiProvinceofChina.Basedonmacro-andmicroscopicfeaturesofeggsandeggshells,theseeggswereidentifiedasElongatoolithussp.,andpossiblybelongtooviraptorosaurs.ACTscanningtopographyrevealedthatalltheeggscontainaccumulationsofembryonicbones,includingpossiblefemurandtibia.Ourdiscoverysuggeststhatdinosaurembryosmightbepreservedmorethanwehaverecognized,becauseintacteggspotentiallyconfineembryonicremains.
%K dinosaurembryos
%K Nankang
%K JiangxiProvince
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