Eggshell and Histology Provide Insight on the Life History of a Pterosaur with Two Functional Ovaries

The counterpart of a previously described non-pterodactyloid pterosaur with an egg revealed the presence of a second egg inside the body cavity of this gravid female. It clearly shows that pterosaurs had two functional oviducts and demonstrates that the reduction of one oviduct was not a prerequisit...

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Main Authors: XIAOLIN WANG, ALEXANDER W. A. KELLNER, XIN CHENG, SHUNXING JIANG, QIANG WANG, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, TAISSA RODRIGUES, FABIANA R. COSTA, NING LI, XI MENG, ZHONGHE ZHOU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2015-09-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000401599&lng=en&tlng=en