Unusual theropod eggshells from the Early Cretaceous Blesa Formation of the Iberian Range, Spain

• Autorzy: Moreno-Azanza M. , Canudo J. I. , Gasca J. M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Trigonoolithus amoae oogen. et oosp. nov. is described on the basis of abundant eggshell fragments from the La Cantalera 1 site in the Early Cretaceous (early Barremian) Blesa Formation, Teruel Province, northern Spain. The surface ornamentation, the most diagnostic feature of the new oogenus, consists of closely spaced sub-triangular or rounded protuberances that have not previously been reported in any other ootaxon. The eggshells present three distinct layers, with a gradual transition between prismatic and mammillary layers, and a poorly developed external layer with progressive prismatic to external layer transition, a combination of characters that allows them to be assigned to Prismatoolithidae. Phylogenetic analyses based on oological characters place Trigonoolithus at the base of Prismatoolithidae.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 59
• Numer: 4
• Opis fizyczny: p.843-854,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Moreno-Azanza M.

• Grupo Aragosaurus-IUCA, Area de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

autor

Canudo J. I.

• Grupo Aragosaurus-IUCA, Area de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

autor

Gasca J. M.

• Grupo Aragosaurus-IUCA, Area de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

Bibliografia

• Amo Sanjuan, O., Canudo, J.I., and Cuenca-Bescós, G. 2000. First record of Elongatoolithidae eggshell fragment from the Lower Barremian of Europe (Cuesta Corrales 2, Galve Basin, Teruel, Spain). In: A.M. Bravo and T. Reyes (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, 7–13. Imprenta Provincial de la Diputaciò de Lleida, Lleida.
• Agnolin, F.L., Powell, J.E., Novas, F.E., and Kundrát, M. 2012. New alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from uppermost Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia with associated eggs. Cretaceous Research 35: 33–56.
• Aurell, M., Bádenas, B., Canudo, J.I., and Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I. 2004. Evolución tectosedimentaria de la Fm. Blesa (Cretácico Inferior) en el entorno del yacimiento de vertebrados de la Cantalera (Josa, Teruel). Geogaceta 35: 11–13.
• Bray, E.S. 1999. Eggs and eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, central Utah. In: D.D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geological Survey 99-1: 361–375.
• Buscalioni, A.D., Fregenal, M.A., Bravo, A., Poyato-Ariza, F.J., Sanchíz, B., Báez, A.M., Cambra Moo, O., Martín Closas, C., Evans, S.E., and Marugan Lobón, J. 2008. The vertebrate assemblage of Buenache de la Sierra (Upper Barremian of Serrania de Cuenca, Spain) with insights into its taphonomy and palaeoecology. Cretaceous Research 29: 687–710.
• Canudo, J.I., Gasca, J.M., Aurell, M., Badiola, A., Blain, H.-A., Cruzado-Caballero, P., Gómez-Fernández, D., Moreno-Azanza, M., Parrilla, J., Rabal-Garcés, R., and Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I. 2010. La Cantalera: an exceptional window onto the vertebrate biodiversity of the Hauterivian–Barremian transition in the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Iberian Geology 36: 295–324.
• Canudo, J.I., Gasca, J.M., Moreno, M., and Aurell, M. 2012. New information about the stratigraphic position and age of the sauropod Aragosaurus ischiaticus from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula. Geological Magazine 149: 252–263.
• Carrano, M.T., Benson, R.B.J., and Sampson, S.D. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10: 211–300.
• Eberth, D.A. and Currie, P.J. 2005. Vertebrate taphonomy and taphonomic modes. In: P.J. Currie and E.B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park. A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed, 453–477. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
• Garcia, G., Feist, M., Cabot, A., Valentin, X., and Vianey-Liaud, M. 2000. Les oeufs de dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du bassin de Villeveyrac-Mèze (Hérault, France): description d’une nouvelle ooespèce de Prismatoolithus. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 171: 283–289.
• Goloboff, P., Farris, J.C., and Nixon, K.C. 2008. TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 24: 774–786.
• Grellet-Tinner, G. and Makovicky, P. 2006. A possible egg of the dromaeosaur Deinonychus antirrhopus: phylogenetic and biological implications. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43: 705–719.
• Hirsch, K.F. 1994. Upper Jurassic eggshells from the Wertern interior of North America. In: K. Carpenter, J. Horner, and K.F. Hirsch (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, 137–150. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Horner, J.R. and Weishampel, D.B. 1988. A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature 332: 256–257.
• Horner, J.R. and Weishampel, D.B. 1996. A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs—a correction. Nature 383: 103.
• Jackson, F.D. and Varricchio, D.J. 2010. Fossil eggs and eggshell from the lowermost Two Medicine Formation of western Montana, Sevenmile Hill locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 1142–1156.
• Jackson, F.D., Horner, J.R., and Varricchio, D.J. 2010. A study of a Troodon egg containing embryonic remains using epifluorescence microscopy and other techniques. Cretaceous Research 31: 255–262.
• Jin, X., Jackson, F.D., Varricchio, D.J., Azuma, Y., and He, T. 2010. The first Dictyoolithus egg clutches from the Lishui basin, Zhejiang Province, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 188–195.
• Kohring, R. 1990. Fossile Reptil-Eierschalen (Chelonia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria) aus dem unterem Barremium von Galve (Provinz Teruel, SE Spanien). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64: 392–344.
• Liesa, C.L., Soria, A.R., Meléndez, N., and Meléndez, A. 2006. Extensional fault control on the sedimentation patterns in a continental rift basin: El Castellar Formation, Galve sub-basin, Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, London 163: 487–498.
• López-Martínez, N. and Vicens, E. 2012. A new peculiar dinosaur egg, Sankofa pyrenaica oogen. nov. oosp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous coastal deposits of the Aren Formation, South-Central Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Palaeontology 55: 325–339.
• Magalhães Ribeiro, C.M. 1999. Utilizacão de catodoluminescência em cascas de ovos de dinossauros. Ameghiniana, Resúmenes 36, 4: 15R.
• Mateus, I., Mateus, H., Antunes, M.T., Mateus, O., Taquet, P., Ribeiro, V., and Manuppella, G. 1997. Couvée, oeufs et embryons d’un dinosaure théropode du Jurassique supérieur de Lourinha (Portugal). Comptes Rendus de l’ Académie des Sciences de Paris 325: 71–78.
• Mikhailov, K.E. 1994. Theropod and protoceratopsian dinosaur eggs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 28: 101–120.
• Mikhailov, K.E. 1997. Fossil and Recent eggshell in amniotic vertebrates; fine structure, comparative morphology and classification. Special Papers in Palaeontology 56: 1–80.
• Moreno-Azanza, M., Gasca, J.M., and Canudo, J.I. 2009a. A high-diversity egg shell locality from the Hauterivian–Barremian transition of the Iberia Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (Supplement to No. 3): 151A.
• Moreno-Azanza, M., Gasca, J.M., and Canudo, J.I. 2009b. New data on the Valanginian–Hauterivan reptile ootaxa of the Iberian Range (NE of Spain). Tribute to Charles Darwin to Bernissart Iguanodons: New perspectives on Vertebrate Evolution and Early Cretaceous Ecosytems, Programme, Abstracts and Field Trips Guidebook, 72. Brussels.
• Moreno-Azanza, M., Mariani, E., Bauluz, B., and Canudo, J.I. 2013. Growth mechanisms in dinosaur eggshells: an insight from electron backscatter diffraction. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:121–130.
• Norell, M. A., Clark, J.M., Demberelyin, D., Rinchen, B., Chiappe, L.M., Davidson, A.R., McKenna, M.C., Altangerel, P., and Novacek, M.J. 1994. A theropod dinosaur embryo and the affinities of the Flaming Cliffs dinosaur eggs. Science 266: 779–782.
• Riveline, J., Berger, J.P., Feist, M., Martín-Closas, C., Schudack, M., and Soulié-Märsche, I. 1996. European Mesozoic–Cenozoic charophyte biozonation. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 167: 453–468.
• Rogers, R. and Brady, M. 2010. Origins of microfossil bonebeds: insights from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of north-central Montana. Paleobiology 36: 80–112.
• Salas, R., Guimerà, J., Más, R., Martín-Closas, C., Meléndez, A., and Alonso, A. 2001. Evolution of the Mesozoic central Iberian Rift System and its Cainozoic inversion (Iberian Chain). Mémoires du Muséum Nationale de l’Histoire Naturelle 186: 145–185.
• Sato, T., Cheng. Y.-N., Wu, X.-C., Zelenitsky, D.K., and Hsiao, H.-F. 2005. A pair of shelled eggs inside a female dinosaur. Science 308: 375.
• Schweitzer, M.H., Jackson, F.D., Chiappe, L.M., Schmitt, J.G., Calvo, J.O., and Rubilar, D.E. 2002. Late Cretaceous avian eggs with embryos from Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 191–195.
• Tyler, C. 1964. Wilhelm von Nathusius 1821–1899. On Avian Egg Shells [translated and edited version of his work]. 104 pp. The University of Reading, Reading.
• Varricchio, D.J. and Jackson, F.D. 2004. A phylogenetic assessment of prismatic dinosaur eggs from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24: 931–937.
• Vianey-Liaud, M. and López-Martínez, N. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71: 1157–1171.
• Vincent, F. 2010. Detection and Imaging of in Ovo Fossil Embryos by Synchrotron Microtomography: Study of the Enigmatic Embryos from Phu Phok (Lower Cretaceous, Thailand). Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble.
• Wright, V.P. and Platt, N.H. 1995. Seasonal wetland carbonate sequences and dynamic catenas: a re-appraisal of palustrine limestones. Sedimentary Geology 99: 65–71.
• Zelenitsky, D.K., Modesto, S.P., and Currie, P.J. 2002. Bird-like characteristics of troodontid theropod eggshell. Cretaceous Research 23: 297–305.
• Zelenitsky, D.K. and Therrien, F. 2008a. Phylogenetic analysis of reproductive traits of maniraptoran theropods and its implications for egg parataxonomy. Palaeontology 51: 807–816.
• Zelenitsky, D.K. and Therrien, F. 2008b. Unique maniraptoran egg clutch from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana reveals theropod nesting behaviour. Palaeontology 51: 1253–1259.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.4202/app.2012.0069