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      Taxonomic identification of the Megaloolithid egg and eggshells from the Cretaceous Bauru Basin (Minas Gerais, Brazil): comparison with the Auca Mahuevo (Argentina) titanosaurid eggs

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          The taxonomically (titanosaurid) identified eggs and eggshells of Auca Mahuevo (Patagonia, Argentina) provide an opportunity to compare and identify orphan megaloolithid eggs found elsewhere. Previous investigation determined that the oological material from Neuquén (Megaloolithus patagonicus) and Peru (M. pseudomamillare) are related to titanosaurid dinosaurs. Examination of an egg and several (megaloolithid) eggshell fragments from the Upper Cretaceous Marilia Formation strongly suggests, as oological characters are at least genus specific, that the same group of titanosaur dinosaurs, which lived in the Neuquén Basin during the Late Campanian, were also present and reproducing in the Cretaceous Bauru Basin (Brazil). Furthermore, it has been suggested that these titanosaurs, based on the site of Auca Mahuevo, demonstrated colonial nesting and nesting fidelity. These reproductive behaviors would advocate that similar nesting sites should exist in the Upper Cretaceous formations of the Bauru Basin and remain to be discovered, as the present Peiropolis locality represents a secondary deposit where fossils have been transported by high-energy fluvial system.

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          Os ovos e cascas de ovos provenientes de Auca Mahuevo (Patagonia, Argentina) e identificados taxonomicamente como sendo de titanossaurídeos servem de base para comparação e identificação de ovos megaloolithídeos encontrados em outras localidades. Investigações prévias detreminaram que os materialis oológicos encontrados em Neuquén (Megaloolithus patagonicus) e no Peru (M. pseudomamillare) estão na realidade relacionados à dinossauros titanossaurídeos. O estudo de um ovo e diversos fragmentos de cascas de ovos (megaloolithídeo) provenientes do Cretáceo Superior da Formação Marília sugere que o mesmo grupo taxonômico de dinossauros titanossauros que ocorria no Campaniano tardio da Bacia Neuquén também estava presente e se reproduzia durante o Cretáceo na Bacia Bauru, isto porque os caracteres oológicos estudados são reconhecíveis ao nível genérico. Além disso, foi sugerido que estes titanossauros do sítio de Auca Mahuevo apresentavam comportamento reprodutivo colonial e fidelidade ao sítio de desova. A presença deste tipo de comportamento reprodutivo apontaria para a existência de sítios de desova similares nas formações do Cretáceo Superior da Bacia Bauru, ainda a serem descobertos, já que a localidade de Peirópolis representa um depósito secundário onde os fósseis foram transportados através de um sistema fluvial de alta-energia.

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              ARCABOUÇO ESTRUTURAL E ASPECTOS DO TECTONISMO GERADOR E DEFORMADOR DA BACIA BAURU NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO

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                Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo)
                Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo)
                Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo )
                1807-0205
                2007
                : 47
                : 7
                : 105-112
                Affiliations
                [1 ] SDSMT USA
                [2 ] Universidade de São Paulo Brazil
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                S0031-10492007000700001
                10.1590/S0031-10492007000700001
                57c752ff-1afc-48ee-86b6-cb42907a1b2f

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                ZOOLOGY

                Animal science & Zoology
                titanosaurid eggs,Bauru Basin,Auca Mahuevo,eggshell structure,dinosaur paleobiology

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