Reptile eggshell ensures water and gas exchange during incubation and plays a key role in
reproductive success. The diversity of reptilian incubation and life history strategies has led …

Amber deposits provide a rare opportunity to look into the details of terrestrial ecosystems.
This study reviews six well-documented Chinese amber deposits from the Mesozoic to …

Lacustrine stromatolites serve as important archives for recording environmental changes,
and the detailed examination of their microfabrics is essential for understanding their …

This paper describes newly discovered dinosaur and crocodylomorph egg fragments from
the Upper Cretaceous Sanshui and Dalangshan formations of the Sanshui Basin of …

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is an analytical technique using diffraction patterns
(called Kikuchi pattern) originated from the back-scattered electrons diffracted by the lattice …

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) has been widely used in recent studies of eggshells
for its convenience in collecting in situ crystallographic information. China has a wide variety …

Unlike the eggshells of other amniotes, turtle eggshells are composed of aragonite, which is
a metastable mineral. Turtle eggshells in the fossil record are therefore usually transformed …