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摘要
An Adocus turtle collected from the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) Kaiparowits Formation in southern Utah contains partial eggs and numerous well-preserved bones beneath the carapace. The bones include the closely associated-articulated elements of the right pectoral girdle, skull and cervical vertebrae. The eggs are about 35mm in diameter, and the rigid 250-280-m thick eggshell exhibits needle-like aragonitic crystals that form the narrow, straight shell units. The eggs appear smaller than those within a gravid Adocus from Alberta, and the eggshell is thinner and lacks the feathered structure reported in the Alberta eggs. Differences in the Utah and Alberta Adocus eggs may result from differences in the stage of egg formation or the specimens may represent different Adocus species.
- 出版日期2011
