Classification
Sites de découverte 257 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien
(72.2–66 Ma)
84
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
113
Coniacien
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
12
Turonien
(93.9–89.8 Ma)
3
Cénomanien
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
33
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
2
Aptien
(121.4–113.2 Ma)
3
Barrémien
(125.77–121.4 Ma)
5
Hauterivien
(132.6–125.77 Ma)
1
Berriasien
(143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Bibliographie
Description originale
Z.-K. Zhao. 1975. [The microstructures of the dinosaurian eggshells of Nanxiong Basin, Guandong province. (1) On the classification of dinosaur eggs]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 13(2):105-117
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J. S. Cabrera-Hernández, M. Montellano-Ballesteros, and P. D. Roy, D. E. Fastovsky. 2022. Eggshells assemblages and stable isotope composition in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) El Gallo Formation of Baja California, Mexico: Paleoenvironmental inferences. Cretaceous Research 138(78):105265
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H. Montgomery and S. Clark. 2016. Paleoecology of the Gaddis Site in the Upper Cretaceous Aguja Formation, Terlingua, Texas. Palaios 31:341-357
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K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and H. Saegusa, T. Ikeda, C. L. DeBuhr, F. Therrien. 2016. Dinosaur eggshell assemblage from Japan reveals unknown diversity of small theropods. Cretaceous Research 57:350-363
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X. Fang, Z. Zhang, and Q. Pang, P. Li, Y. Han, H. Xie, R. Yan, F. Pang, J. Lü, Z. Cheng. 2007. [Cretaceous strata and egg fossils in Xixia, Henan province]. Acta Geoscientia Sinica 28(2):123–142
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L. Salgado, R. A. Coria, and C. M. Magalhaes Ribeiro, A. Garrido, R. Rogers, M. E. Simon, A. B. Arcucci, K. Curry Rogers, A. Paulina Carabajal, S. Apesteguia, M. Fernandez, R. A. Garcia, M. Talevi. 2007. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of Rio Negro (Salitral Ojo de Agua and Salinas de Trapalco-Salitral de Santa Rosa), northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 28(3):392-404
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