Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China
The fossil dinosaur embryo ‘Baby Louie’ and associated clutch of eggs were first discovered in the early 1990s, but were not formally described. Here, the authors identify the specimen as an embryo and eggs of the new large caenagnathid oviraptorosaur,Beibeilong sinensis, from the Late Cretaceous of...
Main Authors: | Hanyong Pu, Darla K. Zelenitsky, Junchang Lü, Philip J. Currie, Kenneth Carpenter, Li Xu, Eva B. Koppelhus, Songhai Jia, Le Xiao, Huali Chuang, Tianran Li, Martin Kundrát, Caizhi Shen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-05-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14952 |
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