Title |
First Evidence of Reproductive Adaptation to “Island Effect” of a Dwarf Cretaceous Romanian Titanosaur, with Embryonic Integument In Ovo
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0032051 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Gerald Grellet-Tinner, Vlad Codrea, Annelise Folie, Alessandra Higa, Thierry Smith |
Abstract |
The Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages of Romania are famous for geographically endemic dwarfed dinosaur taxa. We report the first complete egg clutches of a dwarf lithostrotian titanosaur, from Toteşti, Romania, and its reproductive adaptation to the "island effect". |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 29% |
Greece | 1 | 14% |
Argentina | 1 | 14% |
Romania | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 4 | 57% |
Members of the public | 3 | 43% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
France | 1 | 2% |
Canada | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 55 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 15 | 26% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 16% |
Student > Bachelor | 7 | 12% |
Student > Master | 6 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
Other | 8 | 14% |
Unknown | 8 | 14% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Earth and Planetary Sciences | 27 | 47% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 24% |
Environmental Science | 3 | 5% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
Other | 3 | 5% |
Unknown | 9 | 16% |