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SUBMITTER: Araujo R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3667465 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Araújo Ricardo R Castanhinha Rui R Martins Rui M S RM Mateus Octávio O Hendrickx Christophe C Beckmann F F Schell N N Alves L C LC
Scientific reports 20130101
The non-avian saurischians that have associated eggshells and embryos are represented only by the sauropodomorph Massospondylus and Coelurosauria (derived theropods), thus missing the basal theropod representatives. We report a dinosaur clutch containing several crushed eggs and embryonic material ascribed to the megalosaurid theropod Torvosaurus. It represents the first associated eggshells and embryos of megalosauroids, thus filling an important phylogenetic gap between two distantly related g ...[more]