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Fig. 1: Analytical data from modern and fossil eggshells.
Fig. 2: Likelihood based an ancestral character reconstruction for eggshell mechanical properties in Diapsida.

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Acknowledgements

We thank J. Nan for discussion. S.C. was supported by a Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number 2020R1A6A3A03038316); T.-R.Y. was supported by research funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 108-2116-M-178-003-MY2); M.M.-A. was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/CTA-PAL/31656/2017 and SFRH/BPD/113130/2015) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project CGL2017-85038-P) and by the Government of Aragón-FEDER 2014–2020.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

    Seung Choi

  2. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Seung Choi & Shukang Zhang

  3. Department of Geology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Taichung, Taiwan

    Tzu-Ruei Yang

  4. Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Tzu-Ruei Yang

  5. Aragosaurus: Recursos Geológicos y Paleoambientes – IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Miguel Moreno-Azanza

  6. Geobiotec, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Miguel Moreno-Azanza

  7. Espaço Nova Paleo, Museu da Lourinhã, Lourinhã, Portugal

    Miguel Moreno-Azanza

  8. Department of Geosciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

    Noe-Heon Kim

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Choi, S., Yang, TR., Moreno-Azanza, M. et al. Triassic sauropodomorph eggshell might not be soft. Nature 610, E8–E10 (2022). https://ift.tt/W6Dz4Jq

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