Nature Communications (May 2017)

Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China

  • Hanyong Pu,
  • Darla K. Zelenitsky,
  • Junchang Lü,
  • Philip J. Currie,
  • Kenneth Carpenter,
  • Li Xu,
  • Eva B. Koppelhus,
  • Songhai Jia,
  • Le Xiao,
  • Huali Chuang,
  • Tianran Li,
  • Martin Kundrát,
  • Caizhi Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14952
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The fossil dinosaur embryo ‘Baby Louie’ and associated clutch of eggs were first discovered in the early 1990s, but were not formally described. Here, the authors identify the specimen as an embryo and eggs of the new large caenagnathid oviraptorosaur,Beibeilong sinensis, from the Late Cretaceous of China.