Egg Diagram (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Egg Diagram

Caption

A diagram showing the fossil egg, its parts and relative size. The giant egg has a soft shell. This is shown in dark gray in the drawing, with arrows pointing to its folds and surrounding sediment shown as light gray. The cross section (lower left insert) shows that the egg consists mostly of a soft membrane surrounded by a very thin outer shell. Silhouettes on the lower right show the size of the egg relative to an adult human.

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Legendre et al. (2020)

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