Journal
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180006
Keywords
eggs; palaeoecology; palaeobiology; ecology; environmental reconstruction
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- Royal Society's Newton International Fellowship
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A myriad of extant and extinct vertebrates produce eggs. Eggs and eggshells provide a useful substrate for reconstructing environment, ecology and biology over a range of time scales from deep time to the present. In this review, methods for analysing and understanding records of diet, climate, environment and biology preserved in eggshells are presented. Topics covered include eggshell structure, assessing diagenesis, stable isotope geochemistry and morphological investigations of eggshell characteristics. This review emphasizes the use of eggshells in the modern and fossil record, as they allow for interpretation of characteristics of a wide variety of amniotes across geological history, uniquely informing environmental and ecological investigations.
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