Exceptional Early Jurassic fossils with leathery eggs shed light on dinosaur reproductive biology

F Han, Y Yu, S Zhang, R Zeng, X Wang… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
embryo-containing eggs of a new sauropodomorph from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern
China… the rarity of dinosaur eggs in pre-Cretaceous deposits is a preservation/collection …

Early Jurassic dinosaur fetal dental development and its significance for the evolution of sauropod dentition

RR Reisz, ARH LeBlanc, HC Maddin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… rarer preservation of their development. Here we report on dental … Lufengosaurus from
China, and compare these to patterns in a … Finally, we provide evidence of dramatic ontogenetic …

Rare Earth Elements in Dinosaur bones across the embryo-adult spectrum

S Wang, TD Huang, R Yan, H Chen, S Zhang… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
China, both preserving embryonic and adult bones of Early Jurassic Sauropodomorpha
dinosaurs… The discovery of these two Early Jurassic sites, with both fossilized adult and …

Sedimentological evidence suggests an Early Jurassic age for Yunnanosaurus youngi (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) in Yunnan Province of China

XX Ren, X Su, GF Wang, HL You - Historical Biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… , Sauropoda, existed in the Middle Jurassic and became extinct by the end of the … Province,
China. We found the species horizon is actually from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation…

A juvenile specimen of Sauropodomorpha from the Lower Jurassic of China and a brief review of the Lufeng sauropodomorph fauna

C Peyre de Fabrègues, S Bi, T Ai… - Acta Geologica Sinica …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic
remains. Nature, 496: 210–214. Ren, XX, Sekiya, T., Wang, T., Yang, ZW, and You, HL, 2020. …

… and isotope compositions of newly discovered dinosaur eggs and geochemical environmental instructions from the early Late Cretaceous of Xiuning Basin, China

Q He, Z Gui, L Mao, J Huang, L Xing, Y Chen… - Historical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Full article: Element and isotope compositions of newly discovered dinosaur eggs and
geochemical environmental instructions from the early Late Cretaceous of Xiuning Basin, China

… compositions of dinosaur eggs and associated depositional settings in the Upper Cretaceous Huizhou Formation from the Qiyunshan area, Anhui Province, China …

Q He, Y Chen, J Huang, L Xing, Q Jiang, Z Gui… - Historical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… The development of three fining-upward cycles in this … dinosaur eggs and eggshells from
the Qiyunshan area indicates that nesting behaviour might have been conducive to preservation

Taphonomic analysis of the exceptional preservation of early bird feathers during the early Cretaceous period in Northeast China

Y Zhao, Q Tian, GY Ren, Y Guo… - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… the best-preserved feathers. More geochemical analyses of host sediments, including organic
carbon … “Correlation chart of the Jurassic in China with explanatory text,” in Stratigraphical …

Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage

AM Bailleul, W Zheng, JR Horner, BK Hall… - National Science …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Jurassic [7], but the present study reports this type of exceptional microscopic preservation,
… on Mesozoic fossil remains reporting evidence of chemical and organic remnants, including …

Dinosaur eggs associated with crustacean trace fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi, China: evidence for foraging behavior?

L Xing, K Niu, L Zhang, TR Yang, J Zhang… - Biosis: Biological …, 2020 - eaapublishing.org
… the prosauropod dinosaur Yunnanosaurus from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of
China (… The nest and associated traces reported here were preserved in the Hekou Formation, …