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Re: Embryos known?
> In David J. Varricchio's _Growth and Embryology_ paper in Currie and
> Padian's _Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs_, Varricchio mentions that remains
of
> tiny bones of the following taxa may represent fossilized embryonic
> material:
>
> _Protoceratops_
> _Bagaceratops_
> _Breviceratops_
> an unidentified Mongolian hadrosaur
> _Maiasaura_
> _Camptosaurus_
> _Dryosaurus_
> _Camarasaurus_
> _Mussaurus_
> therizinosaurs
> a dromaeosaurid (_Velociraptor_?)
Don't forgot to add to the list the Upper Jurassic nest found in
Portugal
with more more than 200 embryo bones ascribed to tetanuran theropods.
Refs:
MATEUS, I., MATEUS, H., TELLES ANTUNES, M., MATEUS, O., TAQUET, P.
RIBEIRO, V. & MANUPPELLA, G. (1997). Couvée, ?ufs et embryons d'un
Dinosaure Théropode du Jurassique de Lourinhã (Portugal). C.R Acad. Sci.
Paris, Sciences de la terre et des planètes, 325: 71-78.
MATEUS, O., TAQUET, P., ANTUNES, M.T., MATEUS, H. & RIBEIRO, V. (1998).
Theropod dinosaur nest from Lourinhã, Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology, 18 (Suppl 3): 61A.
Octávio Mateus
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