By Robert L. Carroll
"Carroll has to his credits a huge quantity of necessary labour in writing the booklet and may most likely nook the marketplace for a vertebrate paleontology textual content for the remainder of this century." Nature
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Clark JM, Norell MA, Chiappe LM. 1999. An oviraptorid skeleton from the Late Cretaceous of Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia, preserved in an avianl-like brooding position over an oviraptorid nest. American Museum Novitates 3265: 1–36. Clark JM, Norell M, Makovicky P. 2002. Cladistic approaches to the relationships of birds to other theropods. In Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs, Chiappe LM, Witmer LD (eds). Berkeley: University of California Press; 31–61. Currie PJ, Chen PJ. 2001. Anatomy of Sinosauropteryx prima from Liaoning, northeastern China.
2005; GrelletTinner & Makovicky, 2006) have yielded crucial insights into the evolution of avian reproductive biology. , 2007) has demonstrated that many of them are not fully grown. Assuming their association with nests is demonstrative of a parental relationship, it suggests that nonavian theropods and perhaps even the earliest birds reached reproductive maturity before attaining somatic maturity (¼ cessation of growth). This pattern was reinforced by a paleohistologic study of four dinosaur taxa, in which reproductive maturity was established from the presence of bony tissues interpreted as medullary bone, which in some living birds serves as a calcium reserve for generating eggshell in gravid females (Lee & Werning, 2007).
In The Dinosauria, Weishampel DB, Dodson P, Osmolska H (eds). Berkeley: University of California Press; 660–671. Poe S. 1998. Sensitivity of phylogeny estimation to taxonomic sampling. Systematic Biology 47: 18–31. Perle A, Norell MA, Chiappe LM, Clark JM. 1993. Flightless Bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 362: 623–626. Prum RO. 2002. Why ornithologists should care about the theropod origin of birds: Auk 119: 1–17. Rauhut OWM. 2003. The interrelationships and evolution of basal theropod dinosaurs.