A pair of shelled eggs inside a female dinosaur

T Sato, Y Cheng, X Wu, DK Zelenitsky, Y Hsiao - Science, 2005 - science.org
T Sato, Y Cheng, X Wu, DK Zelenitsky, Y Hsiao
Science, 2005science.org
An oviraptosaurian specimen (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from an Upper Cretaceous formation
in China retains a pair of shelled eggs in the pelvis, providing direct evidence that
oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs laid paired elongatoolithid eggs. The presence of the paired
eggs suggests that theropod dinosaurs had two functional oviducts (like crocodiles) but that
each oviduct produced only one egg at a time and that an entire egg clutch was laid through
multiple ovipositions (like birds). The orientations of the eggs inside the skeleton and in …
An oviraptosaurian specimen (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from an Upper Cretaceous formation in China retains a pair of shelled eggs in the pelvis, providing direct evidence that oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs laid paired elongatoolithid eggs. The presence of the paired eggs suggests that theropod dinosaurs had two functional oviducts (like crocodiles) but that each oviduct produced only one egg at a time and that an entire egg clutch was laid through multiple ovipositions (like birds). The orientations of the eggs inside the skeleton and in clutches indicate that the mother came to the center of the nest to lay eggs.
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